Matthew 27:27–30

MOCKED BY THE MILITARY

27 Thenv the governor’s soldiers took Jesus into the governor’s residence and gathered the whole companyE around him.w 28 They stripped him and dressed him in a scarlet robe.x 29 They twisted together a crown of thorns, put it on his head, and placed a staff in his right hand. And they knelt down before him and mocked him: “Hail, king of the Jews!” 30 Then they spat on him, took the staff, and kept hitting him on the head.