Punishments: Secondary Kinds of Scourging

If the guilty man deserves to be beaten, the judge shall have him lie down and be flogged in his presence with the number of lashes his crime warrants.

He may receive no more than forty lashes, lest your brother be beaten any more than that and be degraded in your sight.

So Pilate released Barabbas to them. But he had Jesus flogged, and handed Him over to be crucified.

But as they stretched him out to strap him down, Paul said to the centurion standing there, “Is it lawful for you to flog a Roman citizen without a trial?”

Five times I received from the Jews the forty lashes minus one.