Sorrowful Mysteries - Scourging
Then Pilate had Jesus taken away and scourged. The soldiers also twisted thorns into a crown and put it on his head. They threw a cloak of royal purple around his shoulders and began coming up to him and saluting him, "Hail, king of the Jews," and struck him on the face.
Pilate went outside yet another time and said to the Jews, "Look, I am bringing him out and I want you to know that I find no crime in him." Jesus then came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple cloak and Pilate pointed to him saying "Ecce homo!"
John 19:1-5
The Roman scourging, carried out by soldiers equipped with a whip made of knotted leather cords, or bearing at the end a blunt instrument, was the punishment reserved for slaves and those condemned to death. Its effects were terrible: those upon whom it was inflicted often died under the lashes. Jesus would not spare himself even this horrific suffering; he confronted it for us. Meditating on this second sorrowful mystery of the Rosary, we hear ourselves called to be disciples of Jesus in his suffering. He prayed for us also with his body, subjecting it to unspeakable tortures in obedience to the plan of the Father, manifesting to all of us unfathomable human misery and the extraordinary possibility of renewal and salvation, which is given to us in him.
On the example of Jesus, we, too, must pray with our bodies. The choices that require demanding and difficult behavior, such as chastity according to one's state of life, giving assistance to our brother and sisters, and other physically tiring activities, become prayer and sacrifice to be offered to God in a redemptive union with the suffering of Christ. If we cringe in horror and are sympathetic to Jesus as he is scourged then we must commit ourselves to goodness. Christ would be spared no pain, ordeal, indignity, or humiliation. Christian martyrs would summon their resolve with the thought that nothing inflicted on them could surpass what Jesus underwent or their sake. We ordinary Christians have the same consolation.