Sunday, July 11, 2021

His Head

“And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it on His HEAD” (John 19:2).

“And they smote Him on the HEAD with a reed” (Mark 15:19).

“When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, He said, It is finished: and He bowed His HEAD, and gave up the ghost” (John 19:30).

“Then cometh Simon Peter following Him, and went into the sepulchre, and seeth the linen clothes lie, And the napkin, that was about His HEAD, not lying with the linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by itself” (John 20:6-7),

O Head! once full of bruises,
So full of pain and scorn,
‘Mid other sore abuses
Mocked with a crown of thorn;
O Head! e’en now surrounded
With brightest majesty,
In death once bowed and wounded
On the accursed tree.

– Bernard of Clairvaux