Matthew 27:27-31 - Jesus Is Mocked

²⁷ Then the soldiers of the governor, taking Jesus aside into the judgment-hall, gathered unto him all the band; ²⁸ and, unclothing him, a scarlet scarf, put they about him, - ²⁹ and, plaiting a crown out of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand, - and, kneeling before him, began to mock him, saying - Joy to thee, King of the Jews! ³⁰ And, spitting upon him, they took the reed, and began striking upon his head. ³¹ And, when they had mocked him, they put off him the scarf, and put on him his garments, and led him away unto the crucifying.

¹⁶ And, the soldiers, led him away, inside the court, which is a judgment-hall, - and called together the whole band; ¹⁷ and they array him in purple, and set upon him, when they have plaited it; a crown of thorns, - ¹⁸ and began to be saluting him - Joy to thee! King of the Jews! ¹⁹ and were striking him on the head with a reed, and were spitting at him, - and, bowing their knees, were doing him homage. ²⁰ And, when they had mocked him, they put off him, the purple, and put on him, his own garments. And they lead him forth, that they may crucify him.

¹⁶ That I should be a public minister of Christ Jesus unto the nations, doing priestly service with the glad-message of God, in order that the offering up of the nations might prove to be acceptable, being hallowed in Holy Spirit: ¹⁷ I have, therefore, myboasting in Christ Jesus in the things pertaining to God, - ¹⁸ For I wilt not dare to speak anything save of the things which Christ hath wrought out for himself through me for the obedience of nations, - -by word and deed, ¹⁹ By the power of signs and wonders, by the power of Holy Spirit; so that I, from Jerusalem and in a circuit as far as Illyricum, have fulfilled the glad-message of the Christ, - ²⁰ Although, thus, - as ambitious to be announcing the glad-message - not where Christ had been named, lest, upon another's foundation, I should be building;