Mocked by the Military

27 Then(A) the governor’s soldiers took Jesus into the governor’s residence and gathered the whole company[a] around him.(B) 28 They stripped him and dressed him in a scarlet robe.(C) 29 They twisted together a crown of thorns, put it on his head, and placed a staff in his right hand. And they knelt down before him and mocked him: “Hail, king of the Jews!” 30 Then they spat on him, took the staff, and kept hitting him on the head. 31 After they had mocked him, they stripped him of the robe, put his own clothes on him, and led him away to crucify him.(D)

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  1. 27:27 Lit cohort

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