Why did Pilate ordered for Jesus to be flogged since He would…

Why did Pilate ordered for Jesus to be flogged since He would still be killed?

Historians tell us that he was a puzzling combination of stubbornness and pliability.

He could be influenced by others (as by the crowd in this case), but at the same time he could insist on having his own way in various particulars.

For example, when the chief priests wanted Pilate to change the sign above Jesus’ cross to read

“This man said, ‘I am the king of the Jews,‘” Pilate responded stubbornly, “What I have written, I have written,” that is, “I’m not going to change the current sign that reads, ‘Jesus of Nazareth, the king of the Jews.’”

So it may be the case that Pilate, having offered flogging instead of crucifixion, but then having given in to the crowd’s demand for crucifixion, nevertheless stubbornly insisted on “doing it his way” by flogging Jesus first.

(While Luke himself does not say specifically that Pilate had Jesus flogged, the other three gospel writers note this detail
For example, Mark writes, “So Pilate, wishing to satisfy the crowd, released Barabbas for them; and after flogging Jesus, he handed him over to be crucified.”)

This indeed appears to be the action of a weak, petulant ruler who couldn’t control the big picture and so insisted on his own prerogatives in small matters.

But in the providence of God, it fulfilled Jesus’ prediction about the Son of Man, “After they have flogged him, they will kill him, and on the third day he will rise again.”

And in the mercy of God, it may also have shortened Jesus’ time of suffering by weakening his body so that it could not endure the crucifixion any longer.

Not that the work of Jesus on the cross was in any way incomplete—”It is finished!” he cried, and we know that he fulfilled his task as the Lamb of God who took away the sins of the world.

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