Juan de Balmaseda, The Scourging of Christ

In all four Gospels Pilate orders that Jesus be scourged. Most images of the scourging are like this one, with Jesus stripped and bound to a pillar. The Gospels leave the impression that the tormentors were Pilate's soldiers, but in this and most similar images their garb is not particularly military.

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Photographed at the cathedral by Richard Stracke, shared under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.