Matthew 27:27-31 - Jesus Is Mocked

²⁷ THEN the soldiers of the procurator taking Jesus to the Praetorium assembled about him the whole cohort, ²⁸ and stripped him, and put on him a crimson cloak, ²⁹ and making a crown of thorns they put it on his head, and a reed in his right hand; and they knelt before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews! ³⁰ And they spit on him, and took the reed and beat him on his head. ³¹ And when they had mocked him, they took the cloak off from him, and put on him his own clothes, and led him away to crucify him.

¹⁶ AND the soldiers led him away into the court which is the Praetorium, and called together all the cohort. ¹⁷ And they put on him a purple garment, and plaiting a thorny crown put it on him. ¹⁸ And they saluted him, Hail, king of the Jews! ¹⁹ And they struck his head with a reed, and beat him, and kneeling down worshipped him. ²⁰ And when they had mocked him they took off the purple garment, and put on him his own clothes, and they led him away to crucify him,

¹⁶ that I should be a servant of Christ Jesus to the nations, administering as a priest the gospel of God, that the offering of the nations may be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit. ¹⁷ I have therefore cause of boasting in Christ Jesus in respect to things relating to God; ¹⁸ for I dare not to speak of what Christ has not performed by me for the obedience of the nations, by word and work, ¹⁹ by the power of miracles and prodigies, by the power of the Spirit, so that from Jerusalem and around as far as Illyricum I have fully preached the gospel of Christ. ²⁰ And I have been anxious so to preach where Christ was not named, that I might not build on another's foundation;