“‘Behold, we go up to Jerusalem,” Jesus forewarned His Apostles, “and all things shall be accomplished which were written by the prophets concerning the Son of man. It was not only our sins that made Him sweat blood in the garden, He also shuddered there in foretaste of His Passion, especially - if I may say it without diminution of any of Our Savior’s other wounds - the brutal scourging. Jesus suffered in spirit His whole life long, but especially as His Passion drew near. Paidion, which has the same root, means “little child.” A brutal scourging, Pilate thought, would satiate the Jewish leaders. The Greek text uses the word paidusas, which has the flavor of “I will give a licking,” almost like he was talking about a stubborn child. I will chastise him therefore, and let him go” (Luke 23: 22). In the account of the Passion, one of the Gospels, that of Saint Luke, has Pilate trying to placate the Jewish mob three times by saying : “I find no cause of death in him. My wife and I both received the Scourging at the Pillar as our own mystery. The Perpetual Rosary of Saint Philomena assigns a mystery of the Rosary to each participant.
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