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Third Sorrowful Mystery: The Crowning with Thorns

The soldiers mock Jesus by placing a crown of thorns on his head.

Scripture: Matthew 27:27-31

Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus inside the praetorium and gathered the whole cohort around him. They stripped off his clothes and threw a scarlet military cloak about him. Weaving a crown out of thorns, they placed it on his head, and a reed in his right hand. And kneeling before him, they mocked him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” They spat upon him and took the reed and kept striking him on the head. And when they had mocked him, they stripped him of the cloak, dressed him in his own clothes, and led him off to crucify him.

Meditation: The King of Kings is mocked and humiliated. Jesus bears our pride and vanity through his suffering.

Fruit of the Mystery: Moral Courage

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