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“While a crown of thorns would be exceedingly painful, the crown of thorns was more about mockery than it was about pain. Here was the “King of the Jews” being beaten, spit upon, and insulted by presumably low-level Roman soldiers. The crown of thorns was the finalizing of their mockery, taking a symbol of royalty and majesty, a crown, and turning it into something painful and degrading.”

But what does this mean for Christians? In fact, it is one of the mysteries of the rosary.
 
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I always took it as he wasn’t a king with a crown of jewels or earthly glory or riches

He was the ultimately humble King
Having nothing but caring so much
Taking all this pain
His crown brought him nothing but pain
But He did it for us
That’s how I see it
 
It’s an interesting question.

Some saints have been offered earthly crowns, earthly gain and have chosen a heavenly crown instead. Christ’s passion seems always to me to point to the futility of earthly desires, and He seems to show us through His human pain and sacrifice of the body the validity of His words. To give up this life at the peak of His physical abilities He shows us how to divorce ourselves from earthly desires and relinquish our grip on the material world of pleasure and transitional gain. The crown is simple and painful all part of what we can expect from this world, nothing of great value but perhaps suffering. His manner of physical death epitomises all those aspects of human life I think.
 
When Adam and Eve were cursed in Genesis, it is written that ‘cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life; thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you’. So in a way the Roman soldiers took an object from the curse and put it on the one who was to deliver us from it.
 
It accomplished both. Buy a crown of thorns on the web and then try it on. You would be amazed at how painful it is with even the slightest movement of any muscle from your jaw to your eyebrow.
 
I sometimes think about the kingship of Jesus when praying that mystery, and how the crown of thorns and his kingship is set apart from what an earthly king may wear.

Fr. James Meagher, in his book ‘How Christ Said the First Mass’ (TAN Books, 1909) says that Jesus’ crown was made from the same type of bush as the burning bush in which God spoke to Moses. I’ve looked it up but can’t find much else to back that up on the internet, though.
 
First of all, GotQuestions is a notorious anti-Catholic site, so it’s probably not a great idea to be sharing links to it here in the context of a Catholic discussion.

Second, the traditional teaching on the Third Sorrowful Mystery, the Crown of Thorns, is that not only did Jesus suffer physical pain, but he suffered mockery and derision and insults to his actual Kingship by people who did not realize he was the true King of the Universe. The Crown of Thorns represents specificallly those sins that we commit through pride and lack of humility, when we should be following the example of Jesus who was the ultimate model of humility.

It’s not really hard to figure out.
 
How often do we mock Him by singing His praises and shortly thereafter committing sin?
 
Bishop Ian Liesen, Diocese Brede, Netherlands, considers it the crown of a bridegroom, a bridegroom pouring out his life for the life of his bride.
Here is some info from a link about crowns in ancient Israel


Isaiah 62:3: “You will also be a crown of beauty in the hand of the Lord and a royal diadem in the hand of the your God.”

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In ancient Hebrew culture there were two types of crowns. There was an enduring crown and a temporary crown . The permanent or enduring crowns were worn by royalty and priests, the temporary crowns were worn by brides and grooms. The crowns worn by brides and grooms were temporary because they were made of flowers or leafy branches which would quickly wilt. The crown mentioned here is an ‘ aretet which is one which entirely circles the head. It is a crown of pa’ar which means beauty, glory and/or honor . It also means green bough or branch . Thus, this is the temporary crown worn by a bride or groom. It is a crown of beauty and ‘ aretet tapa’aret.
 
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