Matthew 27:28 · World English Bible
Matthew 27:28 Meaning They Stripped Him
They stripped him, and put a scarlet robe on him.
What does Matthew 27:28 mean?
To strip the figure bare is to pull away the worldly coverings of the lower self and restore the pure divine consciousness that was the Eden state before the coats of skin. What the flesh means as mockery, the inner reading turns toward life.
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To strip the figure bare is to pull away the worldly coverings of the lower self and restore the pure divine consciousness that was the Eden state before the coats of skin. What the flesh means as mockery, the inner reading turns toward life. Scarlet is the divine life itself, the red of love and living force, so the covering laid over him is not shame but the sign of what he truly carries.
The disciplined stilling of the body, the flesh put to death in meditation, is this same stripping, and it clears the way for the inner Christ to rise clothed in that living red. What appears as humiliation is the return to the radiant consciousness underneath.
Scarlet robe: the divine life itself, the red of love and living force laid upon the inner self
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Live Matthew 27:28 today
- Take one thing off today, a status you keep mentioning, a filter, a carefully managed detail about yourself, and go an afternoon without it. See whether you are smaller without it or just lighter.
- Tell one person something true about your life that you usually dress up. Not a confession, just the plain version instead of the presented one.
- When something embarrassing happens in front of people, a mistake in a meeting, a tone in your voice you did not mean, let it stand without the scramble to cover it. The exposure stings and then it frees you up.
What am I keeping over myself that was never for me?
The same truth in other traditions
Tao Te Ching 19
Strip away the clever ornaments and what is left is the plain, uncarved thing you started as. The simplicity is not poverty, it is what was underneath the decoration.
Zen
The original face, the one you had before anything was added. All the practice does is take off what was layered on top of it.
Sufism · Rumi
The wound is where the light gets in. What the world hands you as humiliation can turn out to be the opening.
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