Holy Week Reading | Day 3

There’s Nothing Funny

Mark 15:16-20

And the soldiers led him away inside the palace (that is, the governor's headquarters), and they called together the whole battalion. ​And they clothed him in a purple cloak, and twisting together a crown of thorns, they put it on him. And they began to salute him, “Hail, King of the Jews!” ​And they were striking his head with a reed and spitting on him and kneeling down in homage to him. ​And when they had mocked him, they stripped him of the purple cloak and put his own clothes on him. And they led him out to crucify him.

​He was oppressed, and he was afflicted,
yet he opened not his mouth;
like a lamb that is led to the slaughter,
and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he opened not his mouth.(Isaiah 53:7)

And they will mock him and spit on him, and flog him and kill him. And after three days he will rise.” (Mark 10:34)

There’s nothing funny!