Matthew 27:27-31 - Jesus Is Mocked

²⁷ Then the soldiers of the governor, having taken Jesus with them to the praetorium, gathered against him the whole band, ²⁸ and having taken off his garment, put on him a scarlet cloak; ²⁹ and having woven a crown out of thorns, they put it on his head, and a reed in his right hand; and, bowing the knee before him, they mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews! ³⁰ And having spit upon him, they took the reed and beat him on his head. ³¹ And when they had mocked him, they took the cloak off him, and put his own clothes on him, and led him away to crucify.

¹⁶ And the soldiers led him away into the court which is called the praetorium, and they call together the whole band. ¹⁷ And they clothe him with purple, and bind round on him a crown of thorns which they had plaited. ¹⁸ And they began to salute him, Hail, King of the Jews! ¹⁹ And they struck his head with a reed, and spat on him, and, bending the knee, did him homage. ²⁰ And when they had mocked him, they took the purple off him, and put his own clothes on him; and they lead him out that they may crucify him.

¹⁶ for me to be minister of Christ Jesus to the nations, carrying on as a sacrificial service the message of glad tidings of God, in order that the offering up of the nations might be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit. ¹⁷ I have therefore whereof to boast in Christ Jesus in the things which pertain to God. ¹⁸ For I will not dare to speak anything of the things which Christ has not wrought by me, for the obedience of the nations, by word and deed, ¹⁹ in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Spirit of God; so that I, from Jerusalem, and in a circuit round to Illyricum, have fully preached the glad tidings of the Christ; ²⁰ and so aiming to announce the glad tidings, not where Christ has been named, that I might not build upon another's foundation;