scourged. Greek. mastigoo. Not the same word as in Mat_27:26. Mar_15:15, which is phragelloo. Compare Joh_2:15. A Florentine Papyrus of A.D. 85 contains the following addressed by a Prefect in Egypt to one Phibion: "Thou wast worthy of scourging . . . but I deliver thee to the people. "Deissmann, Light, &c., p. 267.