Crown-of-thorns Definition

Crown-of-thorns Sentence Examples

• His further suggestion, therefore, that the ironical crowning of Jesus with the crown of thorns and the inscription over the Cross, together with the selection of Barabbas, had anything to do with the feast of Purim, must be rejected.

• The Roman soldiers mocked " the King of the Jews " with a purple robe and a crown of thorns.

• It consisted in shaving the whole head, leaving only a fringe of hair supposed to symbolize the crown of thorns.

• There is some dead coral, partly due to high sea temperatures and partly due to crown of thorns starfish.

• The supposition that the tree was the source of Christ's crown of thorns gave rise doubtless to the tradition current among the French peasantry that it utters groans and cries on Good Friday, and probably also to the old popular superstition in Great Britain and Ireland that ill-luck attended the uprooting of hawthorns.