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Why a crown of thorns?

The soldiers meant it as a joke. Why thorns goes back to page three of the Bible.

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Why a crown of thorns?: the story, stop by stop

This story follows 6 passages of the Bible, from John 19:2 to Revelation 22:3. Every gold arc is a cross-reference in the OpenBible.info data, and every verse is quoted word for word from the Berean Standard Bible.

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  1. 1 John 19:2

    The soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns, set it on His head, and dressed Him in a purple robe.

    Before the crucifixion, the soldiers dress Jesus up as a mock king.

  2. 2 Genesis 3:17–18

    17And to Adam He said: “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat, cursed is the ground because of you; through toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.

    18Both thorns and thistles it will yield for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.

    Go back to the beginning. After the first sin, thorns are the first sign of the curse on the ground.

  3. 3 Genesis 22:13

    Then Abraham looked up and saw behind him a ram in a thicket, caught by its horns. So he went and took the ram and offered it as a burnt offering in place of his son.

    Another thicket in Genesis: a ram caught by its horns dies in Isaac’s place.

    • Genesis 22:6 → John 19:17 · 12 reader votes

  4. 4 John 19:5

    When Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe, Pilate said to them, “Here is the man!”

    Pilate brings Jesus out to the crowd, still wearing the thorns.

  5. 5 Galatians 3:13

    Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.”

    Paul explains the cross with Deuteronomy’s words about a man hung on a tree.

    • Galatians 3:13 → Deuteronomy 21:23 · 74 reader votes

  6. 6 Revelation 22:3

    No longer will there be any curse. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be within the city, and His servants will worship Him.

    On the last page, the curse that began in Genesis 3 is gone.

    • Genesis 3:10–13 → Revelation 22:3 · 19 reader votes

He wore the curse on His head so it could be lifted off His people.

Made from a Christ Reels video. A cross-reference is a reader’s judgement that two passages belong together, not proof; what the links are.

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