"The Crown of Thorns" and "The Shame and the Spitting"
Spurgeon's "The Crown of Thorns" and "The Shame and the Spitting". (sermons)
Extract: And now let us press into the guard-room, and look at our Savior wearing His crown of thorns. I will not detain you long with any guesses as to what kind of thorns He wore. According to the Rabbis and the botanists there would seem to have been from twenty to twenty-five different species of thorny plants growing in Palestine; and different writers have, according to their own judgments or fancies, selected one and another of these plants as the peculiar thorns which were used upon this occasion. But why select one thorn out of many? He bore not one grief, but all; any and every thorn will suffice; the very dubiousness as to the peculiar species yields us instruction.
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