Mocked by the Military
27 Then 27:27–31 Mk 15:16–20; Jn 19:2–3 the governor’s soldiers took Jesus into the governor’s residence and gathered the whole company 27:27 Lit cohort around him. 27:27 Jn 18:28,33; 19:9; Ac 10:128 They stripped him and dressed him in a scarlet robe. 27:28 Lk 23:11; Jn 19:229 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.