[Destro]

What I meant is just as in Islam where they do such scourging the number of whacks is prescribed-10 whacks for this offense - 20 for that offense, etc. It was logical to assume the order came to scourge Jesus with a set number of hits. Of course the Romans in mocking him may have went beyond that. I concede the point that the Romans may have gone beyond that. They did mock him with a crown of thorns.

[ZULU]

Since Pilot apparently didn't KNOW what Christ did which inflamed the crowd, we don't really know what happened.
To Pilot, they were all just a bunch of trouible-making foreigners he couldn't understand with a weird religion and odd God. But I see your point.

Pilot recently had his wrists slapped by the Central Government in Rome for causing some kind of problem vis-a-vis his new charges. Whatever he did, certain leading Jews with connections in Rome ratted on him to the Emperor. COnsequently, whatever the issue was, Pilot was extremely reluctant to do ANYTHING which might lead to futher disturbances in Jerusalem and result in his tranfer to an even less appealing place, if such existed. I believe he ended his days as governor of Noricum at Vienna, probably the Roman equivalent of Viet Nam in the 1960s.