So when Pilate saw that he could do nothing, but rather that a riot was beginning, he took some water and washed his hands before the crowd, saying, “I am innocent of this man’s blood; see to it yourselves.” Then the people as a whole answered, “His blood be on us and on our children!” So he released Barabbas for them; and after flogging Jesus, he handed him over to be crucified.
Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the governor’s headquarters, and they gathered the whole cohort around him. They stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him, and after twisting some thorns into a crown, they put it on his head. They put a reed in his right hand and knelt before him and mocked him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” They spat on him, and took the reed and struck him on the head. After mocking him, they stripped him of the robe and put his own clothes on him. Then they led him away to crucify him. Matthew 27:24-31
O Jesus who came among us
you humbled yourself for all
you told us to visit the prisoners
and to live with love for all.
We have built walls and rejected
the ones that you sent to us
the troubled sons and the daughters
the broken, homeless and terrified.
We have turned our backs on others
fear and change have rattled us all
we want to return to a safer time
and places that never ever existed.
Help us to lean in and love more
make us those who forgive daily
give us hearts that do not wound
so that your love might flourish again. Amen
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