Stripes in these verses mean the lash. Jesus tells his followers he will be delivered to the Gentiles “to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify him”, and Matthew 27:26 records it: Pilate scourged him and handed him over. Paul’s life carried the same marks. He lists “stripes, in imprisonments” among the costs of his work in 2 Corinthians 6:5, and Acts 22:24 shows a captain ordering him examined by scourging. The passages are brief and hard, and they never turn away from the pain. Read Matthew 27:24-31 for the longest account of what Jesus endured.
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And whosoever lieth carnally with a woman, that is a bondmaid, betrothed to an husband, and not at all redeemed, nor freedom given her; she shall be scourged; they shall not be put to death, because she was not free.
And shall deliver him to the Gentiles to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify him: and the third day he shall rise again.
Then released he Barabbas unto them: and when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified.
And so Pilate, willing to content the people, released Barabbas unto them, and delivered Jesus, when he had scourged him, to be crucified.
Who immediately took soldiers and centurions, and ran down unto them: and when they saw the chief captain and the soldiers, they left beating of Paul.
The chief captain commanded him to be brought into the castle, and bade that he should be examined by scourging; that he might know wherefore they cried so against him.
In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings;
Matthew George Easton, 1897
As a punishment were not to exceed forty (Deut. 25:1-3), and hence arose the custom of limiting them to thirty-nine (2 Cor. 11:24). Paul claimed the privilege of a Roman citizen in regard to the infliction of stripes (Acts 16:37, 38; 22:25-29). Our Lord was beaten with stripes (Matt. 27:26).