Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Volume 49 · 1883
Mocked of the Soldiers
Matthew 27:29
IT is a shameful spectacle where cruelty uses its keenest instrument to cut, not into the flesh, but into the very spirit, for scorn, contempt, insult, and ridicule, are as painful to the mind and heart as a scourge is to the body, and they cut like the sharpest lance.