Rosary #49 The Crowning with Thorns

The Crowning with Thorns (Matthew 27:24-31)

"After Pilate had passed judgement to satisfy the desires of the wicked,
those sacrilegious soldiers were not satisfied to crucify the Savior until
they had heaped his soul full of mockery. The entire cohort assembled in the
praetorium, stripped him of his clothes, dressed him in a scarlet tunic and
placed a purple cloak around him, a crown of thorns on his head and a reed in his
right hand. They genuflected in mockery, gave him blows, spat upon him and
struck that sacred head with the reed." Saint Bonaventure

First Mystery
24 When Pilate saw that he was not succeeding at all, but that a riot was breaking out instead, he took water and washed his hands in the sight of the crowd, saying, "I am innocent of this man's blood. Look to it yourselves." And the whole people said in reply, "His blood be upon us and upon our
children."

Second Mystery
26 Then he released Barabbas to them, but after he had Jesus scourged, he handed him over to be crucified.

Third Mystery
27 Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus inside the praetorium and gathered the whole cohort around him. 28 They stripped off his clothes and threw a scarlet military cloak about him.

Fourth Mystery
29 Weaving a crown out of thorns, they placed it on his head, and a reed in his right hand. And kneeling before him, they mocked him, saying, "Hail, King of the Jews!" They spat upon him and took the reed and kept striking him on the head.

Fifth Mystery
31 And when they had mocked him, they stripped him of the cloak, dressed him in his own clothes, and led him off to crucify him.