Short Meditation On Our Lord’s Seven Hard Ways: The Sixth Voyage, From Herod To Pilate

DUCCIO di Buoninsegna 
Christ Before King Herod (scene 14) 
1308-11

Seven Hard Ways:
First from the house where he supped, to the Garden. 
Secondly from thence to Annas. 
Thirdly to Caiphas his house. 
Fourthly to Pilate. 
Fifthly to Herod. 
Sixthly again to Pilate. 
Seventh to the Cross.

Acts In The House Of Pilate:
Barabbas
Scourging
Crowning
Presenting
Third Accusation of the Jews
Second Examination of Pilate
Fourth Accusation of the Jews
Condemnation 

Meditation On Our Lord’s Seven Hard Ways:

Friday

The Sixth Voyage, From Herod To Pilate. 

1. Pilate and Herod, being become friends, who were before enemies, Jesus was sent back again to the President in that white vesture, & was therefore with more liberty outrageously abused by the way, both of the officers, & others, & what through feebleness being not able to sustain himself, as also through the fierceness of his enemies was often trailed on the ground, as we may piously and with reason suppose.

2. Being returned to Pilate, he was of new declared for innocent; he was proposed to the people together with Barrabas, of whom they made choice, & rejected Jesus: he was delivered over to be cruelly whipped with cords, chains and rods; he was crowned with thorns, vested with purple, scornfully caused to sit, begert with a rope, with a cane or reed in his hand, and ignominiously saluted King of the Jews.

3. He was yet again brought before Pilate, and once more by him examined, & being found wholly innocent, was led forth by Pilate himself into an open gallery (soil handled, & disfigured) the sight of all the people, so to move them to compassion, who notwithstanding incited by the princes, & scribes, with most cruel, and unjust clamores, was declared worthy to be condemned to the death of the Cross.


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