26. Then he released for them Barabbas, and having scourged Jesus, delivered him to be crucified.
27. Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the governor’s headquarters, and they gathered the whole battalion before him.
28. And they stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him,
29. and twisting together a crown of thorns, they put it on his head and put a reed in his right hand. And kneeling before him, they mocked him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!”
30. And they spit on him and took the reed and struck him on the head.