World English Bible

Matthew 27:27-33 World English Bible (WEB)

27. Then the governor’s soldiers took Jesus into the Praetorium, and gathered the whole garrison together against him.

28. They stripped him, and put a scarlet robe on him.

29. They braided a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and a reed in his right hand; and they kneeled down before him, and mocked him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!”

30. They spat on him, and took the reed and struck him on the head.

31. When they had mocked him, they took the robe off of him, and put his clothes on him, and led him away to crucify him.

32. As they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name, and they compelled him to go with them, that he might carry his cross.

33. When they came to a place called “Golgotha”, that is to say, “The place of a skull,”