Then released he Barabbas unto them: and when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified.
Ver. 26. And when he had scourged Jesus] So to satisfy their cruelty, and move them, if it might be, to pity. But though they relented not at the sight, it's fit we should. Would it not grieve us at the heart, if we should see the king's son basely whipped by our adversaries, only for our affairs? Christ was scourged when we had offended, that he might free us from the sting of conscience, and those scourges and scorpions of eternal torments, that he might make us a plaster of his own blessed blood, a for by his stripes we are healed, by the bloody weals made upon his back we are delivered. We hold it a thing almost beyond belief, that the applying of medicines to the sword that wounded a man shall make the wounds heal in a man. But here is a mystery that only Christian religion can tell of, and of which there never was precedent in nature, that the scourging and wounding of one man should cure another. See Trapp on " Joh 19:1 "
a Sanguis medici factus est medicina phrenetici.