Wednesday is known as Spy Wednesday because on this day Judas made a bargain with the high priest to betray Jesus for 30 silver pieces (Matt 26:14-16; Mark 14:10-11; Luke 22:1-6). Excerpt taken from Reflections On The Passion by Charles Hugo Doyle
“There is another consideration I would have you ponder over in your mind. It concerns the reed placed in our Lord’s hands during the crowning with thorns as a mock gesture of a king’s scepter. It is not worthy of note that the lowly reed should play such an important part in our Lord’s life. He began His public life by going to Cana of Galilee, to begin as it were the reconstruction and redemption of mankind with a man and his wife–since it was a man and his wife who had opened the sluice gates of sin and flooded this world with woe. “Cana,” you see, means “a place of reeds.”
And now at the end of His public life the reed appears again and is placed in His hands in mockery of His royalty, and finally, it becomes an instrument of torture in itself–since the soldiers beat His thorn crowned head with this same reed. I have always thought that this special suffering inflicted on our Lord by the blows from the reed were in reparation for the mockery men and women make of marriage and the sins such as divorce, abortion, desertion, and birth control committed by persons disdainful of God’s laws.”
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