² If the guilty person deserves to be beaten,^(A) the judge shall make them lie down and have them flogged in his presence with the number of lashes the crime deserves,

³ but the judge must not impose more than forty lashes.^(A) If the guilty party is flogged more than that, your fellow Israelite will be degraded in your eyes.^(B)

²⁶ Then he released Barabbas to them. But he had Jesus flogged,^(A) and handed him over to be crucified.

²⁵ As they stretched him out to flog him, Paul said to the centurion standing there, “Is it legal for you to flog a Roman citizen who hasn’t even been found guilty?”^(A)

²⁴ Five times I received from the Jews the forty lashes^(A) minus one.