The Gospels give no number. They say only that Pilate had Jesus scourged. The well-known “39 lashes” comes from Jewish law, which allowed forty stripes and no more (Deuteronomy 25:3) and in practice gave “forty stripes save one,” as Paul received (2 Corinthians 11:24). Pilate was Rome’s governor, and no Roman limit is known. The count was never kept. What Scripture keeps instead is a promise spoken long before. “He was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our…

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