Category:Crown of Thorns

---excerpt from the Illustrated Bible Dictionary. (This has been slightly edited from the original.)

Crown of Thorns - Our Lord was crowned with a crown of thorns in mockery by the Romans ( Matthew 27:29). The object of Pilate's guard in doing this was probably to insult and to inflict pain. The shrub may have been the spina Christi, which could have been easily woven into a wreath. It could also have been the thorny nabk, which grew abundantly round about Jerusalem, and whose flexible, pliant, and round branches could easily be platted into the form of a crown. (See THORN, (3).)