Ecce Homo

It depicts a scene from the Gospel of John (Jn 19:5) in which Jesus Christ is condemned to death before the crowd in the Praetorium. According to the evangelist, ‘Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. And Pilate said to them, ‘Behold the man!’’; a passage commonly summarised with the Latinism Ecce Homo. In this case, Morales depicts the Saviour crowned with thorns, focusing all attention on the submissive gaze, which takes us back to the Gospel of Matthew (Mt 27:28-29), when it says: ‘and stripping him naked, they covered him with a scarlet robe, and put a crown woven with thorns on his head, and a reed in his right hand’.