The Crown of Thorns

The first time thorns appear in the scripture are in Genesis three, right after the fall. The Lord God appears to Adam and says, because you have listened to your wife and eaten of the fruit of which I said, now shall not eat of it, curse, be the ground because of you. So just pause there to note that this is a cosmic curse as an effect of man's sin. And the curse takes a very particular shape Because the Lord God goes on to say thorns and thistles shall, shall it bear for you the ground will come and by the sweater, your brow shall you have bred to eat, etc.