Environment / Photo Essay / The Nation’s Western correspondent, Sasha Abramsky, captures the destruction of the Palisades ...

All as innocent as the University of Alabama freshman, and the 18-year-old woman intending to go to nursing school, and the ...

I grew up believing Pilot ordered Jesus to be scourged but not too badly because “I have found in him no crime deserving death.” (Luke chapter 23, verse 22). The opposite seems to be the truth because ...

[and] handed [Jesus] over to be crucified. Then Pilate took Jesus and had him scourged. And the soldiers wove a crown out of thorns and placed it on his head, and clothed him in a purple cloak ...

Q. 376. Why was Christ cruelly scourged? A. Christ was cruelly scourged by Pilate's orders, that the sight of His bleeding body might move His enemies to spare His life. Q. 377. Why was Christ ...