Christmas-The Greatest Gift of All
Christmas is a wonderful time for spending quality time with family we haven't seen in a while and for unwrapping presents next to the tree but I'd like to take time and think about the Greatest Gift of all, Jesus, God's only beggoten son come to Earth. He didn't come as He deserved, but He came humbly to a lowly peasent girl named Mary and a carpenter named Joseph in a manger. The Christmas story may begin with Bethlehem but it certainly doesn't end there. God's gift in Bethlehem led to the greatest sacrifice this world will ever know, the cross. Before being nailed to the cross, Jesus wasn't just whipped, he was scourged. Scourging is done with "a short whip with several single or braided leather thongs of variable lengths, in which small iron balls or sharp pieces of sheep bones were tied at intervals. For scourging, the man was stripped of his clothing, and his hands were tied to an upright post. The back, buttocks, and leg