Carolyn Adams Roth reflects here on what likely was the plant from which the Roman soldiers plaited the crown of thorns for Jesus. Reading that got me thinking. On this Good Friday—marking the most horrific sin in all history, the murder of God—it is good to reflect on thorns and what they teach us. The Bible’s first mention of them comes in God’s proclamation of judgment on Adam in Genesis 3:17–18: “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I … [Read more...]