Matthew 27:27-31 - Jesus Is Mocked
27 After that, the Governor's soldiers took Jesus with them into the Government House, and gathered the whole garrison round him. 28 They stripped him, and put on him a red military cloak, 29 And having twisted some thorns into a crown, put it on his head, and a rod in his right hand, and then, going down on their knees before him, they mocked him. "Long life to you, King of the Jews!" they said. 30 They spat at him and, taking the rod, kept striking him on the head; 31 And, when they had left off mocking him, they took off the military cloak, and put his own clothes on him, and led him away to be crucified.
16 The soldiers then took Jesus away into the court-yard--that is the Government House--and they called the whole garrison together. 17 They dressed him in a purple robe, and, having twisted a crown of thorns, put it on him, 18 And then began to salute him. "Long life to you, King of the Jews!" they said. 19 And they kept striking him on the head with a rod, spitting at him, and bowing to the ground before him--going down on their knees; 20 And, when they had left off mocking him, they took off the purple robe, and put his own clothes on him.
16 Because of the charge with which God has entrusted me, that I should be a minister of Christ Jesus to go to the Gentiles--that I should act as a priest of God's Good News, so that the offering up of the Gentiles may be an acceptable sacrifice, consecrated by the Holy Spirit. 17 It is, then, through my union with Christ Jesus that I have a proud confidence in my work for God. 18 For I will not dare to speak of anything but what Christ has done through me to win the obedience of the Gentiles-- 19 By my words and actions, through the power displayed in signs and marvels, and through the power of the Holy Spirit. And so, starting from Jerusalem and its neighborhood, and going as far as Illyria, I have told in full the Good News of the Christ; 20 Yet always with the ambition to tell the Good News where Christ's name had not previously been heard, so as to avoid building upon another man's foundations.