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Crown of Thorns: Our Lord was crowned with a, in mockery by the Romans
(Matthew 27:29) The
object of Pilate's guard in doing this was probably to insult, and not
specially to inflict pain. There is nothing to show that the shrub thus
used was, as has been supposed, the spina Christi, which could have
been easily woven into a wreath. It was probably the thorny nabk, which
grew abundantly round about Jerusalem, and whose flexible, pliant, and
round branches could easily be platted into the form of a crown.
