Psalms 74:20

20 Have regard for athe covenant,
for bthe dark places of the land are full of the habitations of violence.

Proverbs 12:10

10 cWhoever is righteous has regard for the life of his beast,
but the mercy of the wicked is cruel.

Ecclesiastes 9:3

3This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that dthe same event happens to all. Also, the hearts of the children of man are full of evil, and emadness is in their hearts while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

Mark 15:15-20

15So Pilate, wishing to satisfy the crowd, released for them Barabbas, and having fscourged
A Roman judicial penalty, consisting of a severe beating with a multi-lashed whip containing imbedded pieces of bone and metal
Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified.

Jesus Is Mocked

16 hAnd the soldiers led him away inside ithe palace (that is, jthe governor’s headquarters),
Greek  the praetorium
and they called together the whole lbattalion.
Greek cohort; a tenth of a Roman legion, usually about 600 men
17And they clothed him in na purple cloak, and twisting together a crown of thorns, they put it on him. 18And they began to salute him, oHail, King of the Jews!” 19And they were striking his head with a reed and pspitting on him and qkneeling down in homage to him. 20And when they had rmocked him, they stripped him of sthe purple cloak and put his own clothes on him. And they tled him out to crucify him.

Luke 23:40-41

40But the other rebuked him, saying, “Do you not fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation? 41And we indeed justly, for we are receiving the due reward of our deeds; but this man has done nothing wrong.”
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