Smurfed Behind: The Passion Of The Smurfs/Part 5

By morning, a crowd of people have gathered around the Praetorium, which is where Hefty and his group of Smurfs have found Tapper and his group of Smurfs. "Thank Smurfness you're safe and smurf, Tapper, because we've been smurfing all night just trying to find you and the others," Hefty said.

"You shouldn't need to worry about me, Hefty, because the Lord has protected me and the others while we were following the Messiah from the time of the Passover meal up until now," Tapper said.

"Oh dear, what's with this crowd of people around this time of day?" Vanity asked.

"They've brought the Messiah here so that they could have him crucified, Vanity," Smurfette said.

"Gosh, I can't even understand what that Man did to even deserve this," Clumsy said.

"Frankly, I don't understand a single thing that's smurfing on here myself, Clumsy," Brainy said. "It's like certain groups of people just don't like Him for some unknown reason."

"Grandpa Smurf sent us to find you in order to tell you that you need to return to camp with your fellow Smurfs, Tapper," Handy said.

"I won't leave here until I see for myself what happens to the Messiah, Handy," Tapper said.

"Here smurfs that man that you call Pontius Pilate," Duncan said as he saw a dressed in Roman clothes emerge from within the Praetorium to address the crowd. The other Smurfs joined Duncan at the place where they could see over the crowd at the scene taking place.

“What accusation do you bring against this Man?” Pilate asked as he saw the Messiah brought before him by the high priests.

The high priests answered, “If He were not an evildoer, we would not have delivered Him up to you.”

“You take Him and judge Him according to your law,” Pilate said dismissively.

“It is not lawful for us to put anyone to death,” the high priest said. So Pontius Pilate brought the Messiah in for questioning, which none of the Smurfs could ever see or hear, but Tapper knew exactly what questions were being asked, if He was the King of the Jews. Tapper knew that the Lord would answer in a manner that suggested that He had no fear of what's going to happen to Him, that it was all going according to His Father's plan.

Pilate then emerged with the Messiah, saying, "I find no fault in Him at all. But you have a custom that I should release someone to you at the Passover. Do you therefore want me to release to you the King of the Jews?”

"Not this Man! Give us Barabbas!" the crowd shouted.

Pilate then ordered Barabbas to be brought out of chains and released at once. The Smurfs saw him and realized that he looked every sort like an unrepentant criminal as he emerged from the Praetorium, seemingly pleased with the idea of being released. He looked at the Messiah briefly and sneered in His face before he walked away.

Then at the crowd's insistence, the Messiah was taken into the inner court of the Praetorium where He was stripped of His clothes and given thirty-nine stripes with scourges by the Roman soldiers. Tapper, Duncan, and Smurfette bravely made their way through the crowd and entered to see this event taking place...not that Smurfette wanted to see it for herself, but she felt that she needed to be there with Tapper as he saw the beating in every excruciating detail.

"Michty me, the laddie's surely a brave one for how He's enduring the beating," Duncan said.

"I don't know how you can stand watching your own Messiah being smurfed to death, Tapper," Smurfette said, covering her eyes so that she wouldn't see it.

"I sincerely do not enjoy being a witness to this myself, Smurfette, but it is according to the Scriptures that foretold of His fate: 'But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement for our peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed'," Tapper said.

Some blood splashed on the three Smurfs as they continued to stand as witnesses to the horrific beating, but after it was done, the Roman soldiers twisted a crown of thorns and put it on the Messiah's head, and they put on Him a purple robe. Then they said, “Hail, King of the Jews!” And they struck Him with their hands.

To be expanded on.