{"id":633,"date":"2015-04-15T12:00:06","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T12:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/forbiblestudynerds\/?p=633"},"modified":"2015-03-06T23:45:04","modified_gmt":"2015-03-06T23:45:04","slug":"matthew-101-42-jesus-sends-out-the-twelve-historical-backgrounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/forbiblestudynerds\/2015\/04\/matthew-101-42-jesus-sends-out-the-twelve-historical-backgrounds.html","title":{"rendered":"Matthew 10:1-42; Jesus Sends Out the Twelve (Historical Backgrounds)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cThey will hand you over to the local councils and flog you in their synagogues\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t gloss over Jesus\u2019 promise of flogging that\u2019s recorded in Matthew 10:17\u2014you can be sure his disciples didn\u2019t. Here\u2019s what happened when one of Jesus\u2019 disciples was flogged in a synagogue:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Any person\u2014man or woman\u2014deemed guilty of entering the temple while unclean would be subject to the punishment of flogging. After Acts 10:9-16 happened (when God lifted the ban on eating certain meats), synagogue officials would have deemed most Christians guilty of being unclean.<\/li>\n<li>After the synagogue officials had passed judgment, Jesus\u2019 disciple was stripped to the waist and made to lie down, or crouch low to the ground. His or her hands were tied to a pillar for the duration of the flogging.<\/li>\n<li>Four people were required to conduct the flogging. A <em>hazzan<\/em> (\u201cadministrator\u201d) did the actual whipping. A second person counted the number of blows. A third person gave the commands. And a fourth person read aloud Deuteronomy 28:58-59 while the beating took place.<\/li>\n<li>The <em>hazzan<\/em> would use a sturdy leather whip for the flogging. This was usually a whip made of four plaited thongs attached to a handle.<\/li>\n<li>The standard number of lashes was 40, though most often one of Jesus\u2019 disciples was whipped 39 times (known as 40 less one). This was done just in case the <em>hazzan<\/em> and\/or the counter lost count sometime during the bloody delivery of punishment.<\/li>\n<li>One-third of the lashes (about 13) were delivered to the disciple\u2019s chest, and the remainder (about 26) were delivered to the back.<\/li>\n<li>If Jesus\u2019 disciple appeared near death as a result flogging, the <em>hazzan<\/em> was supposed to stop. In spite of that, \u201cthere are records of people dying\u201d from a synagogue flogging.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/forbiblestudynerds\/workscited.html\">Works Cited<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>[ZB1, 69]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u2126\u2126\u2126<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"About: Bible Study Nerds\" href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/forbiblestudynerds\/about-for-bible-study-nerds.html\">About: For Bible Study Nerds\u2122<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"About: Mike Nappa\" href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/forbiblestudynerds\/about-mike-nappa.html\">About: Mike Nappa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2014 to present by\u00a0<a title=\"Nappaland Communications Inc. official website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nappaland.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nappaland Communications Inc<\/a>. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThey will hand you over to the local councils and flog you in their synagogues\u2026\u201d Don\u2019t gloss over Jesus\u2019 promise of flogging that\u2019s recorded in Matthew 10:17\u2014you can be sure his disciples didn\u2019t. Here\u2019s what happened when one of Jesus\u2019 disciples was flogged in a synagogue: Any person\u2014man or woman\u2014deemed guilty of entering the temple&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":571,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[198,288,112],"class_list":["post-633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historicalbackgrounds","category-matthew","tag-bible-promises","tag-flogging","tag-persecution"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Matthew 10:1-42; Jesus Sends Out the Twelve (Historical Backgrounds) - For Bible Study Nerds<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, nofollow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Matthew 10:1-42; Jesus Sends Out the Twelve (Historical Backgrounds) - For Bible Study Nerds\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u201cThey will hand you over to the local councils and flog you in their synagogues\u2026\u201d Don\u2019t gloss over Jesus\u2019 promise of flogging that\u2019s recorded in Matthew 10:17\u2014you can be sure his disciples didn\u2019t. 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