It’s.Rather.Ironic
Matthew 27: 27-29
27Then the governor’s soldiers took Jesus into the Praetorium and gathered the whole company of soldiers around him. 28They stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him, 29and then twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on his head. They put a staff in his right hand and knelt in front of him and mocked him. “Hail, king of the Jews!” they said.
The story of the Roman guard here is one that has always made me wonder. He woke up every morning and put on his armor and went to work for the Roman empire. It was his job to beat people that government said deserved it. Day in and day out he delivered lashes and beatings to random men that the Roman Empire considered criminals.
So I wonder what he thought the day they placed Jesus of Nazareth infront of him. I wonder if he even knew who Jesus was. I wonder if he knew about Jesus’ message and respected him as a Rabbi. I wonder if he was clueless as to who Jesus was but felt something different that day. I mean he beats criminals for a living and that day the Son of God is placed infront of him. I wonder if he could sense that there was something different about this man. I have a feeling he knew. Later on in the bible we come to find out that one the gaurds ended up becoming a christian. I wonder if he liked his job. I mean beating people on regular basis has got to do something to you on the inside. It has got to take a toll on your characture. Thats why when men in the service come home from war they are forever changed. So I wonder if this Roman Guard even enjoyed his job. I wonder if he had a wife and kid and if he did if his children knew what he did for a living.
This characture plays a very small roll in the Bible but to know that one week he helps kill the Son of God and the next week he becomes a follower of his message just makes me wonder what his story is really all about. Because It’s.Rather.Ironic
-Billy
