Matthew 27:27-31 - Jesus Is Mocked

²⁷ Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the common hall and gathered unto him the whole band of soldiers. ²⁸ And they stripped him and put on him a scarlet robe. ²⁹ And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head and a reed in his right hand; and they bowed the knee before him and mocked him, saying, Receive joy, King of the Jews! ³⁰ And they spit upon him and took the reed and smote him on the head. ³¹ And after they had mocked him, they took the robe off from him and put his own raiment on him and led him away to crucify him.

¹⁶ And the soldiers led him away into the hall called Praetorium, and they call together the whole band. ¹⁷ And they clothed him with purple and platted a crown of thorns and put it about his head ¹⁸ and began to salute him, Hail, King of the Jews! ¹⁹ And they smote him on the head with a reed and spit upon him and bowing their knees worshipped him. ²⁰ And when they had mocked him, they took off the purple from him and put his own clothes on him and led him out to crucify him.

¹⁶ being the minister of Jesus Christ, to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering of the Gentiles might be well pleasing, sanctified by the Holy Spirit. ¹⁷ Therefore I have something to boast of in Christ Jesus, with regard to God. ¹⁸ For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ has not wrought by me, unto the obedience of the Gentiles, with word and with deed, ¹⁹ with power of signs and wonders, in virtue of the Spirit of God; so that from Jerusalem and round about unto Illyricum, I have filled the entire area with the gospel of the Christ. ²⁰ And in this manner I preached this gospel, not where Christ had been named previously, not to build upon a foundation belonging to another,