Mark 15:16-20
New American Standard Bible
Jesus Is Mocked
16 (A)Now the soldiers took Him away into (B)the [a]palace (that is, the Praetorium), and they *called together the whole Roman [b](C)cohort. 17 And they *dressed Him in [c]purple, and after twisting together a crown of thorns, they put it on Him; 18 and they began saluting Him: “Hail, King of the Jews!” 19 And they repeatedly beat His head with a [d]reed and spit on Him, and kneeling, they bowed down before Him. 20 And after they had mocked Him, they took the [e]purple cloak off Him and put His own garments on Him. And they *led Him out to crucify Him.
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- Mark 15:16 Or court
- Mark 15:16 Normally 600 men (the number varied)
- Mark 15:17 Prob. a term for a Roman soldier’s red cloak (cf. Matt 27:28)
- Mark 15:19 Or staff (made of a reed)
- Mark 15:20 See note v 17
Mark 15:16-20
Lexham English Bible
Jesus Is Mocked
16 So the soldiers led him away into the palace (that is, the governor’s residence) and called together the whole cohort. 17 And they put a purple cloak on him, and after[a] weaving a crown of thorns they placed it[b] on him. 18 And they began to greet him, “Hail, king of the Jews!” 19 And they repeatedly struck[c] him on the head with a reed, and were spitting on him, and they knelt down[d] and[e] did obeisance to him. 20 And when they had mocked him, they stripped him of the purple cloak and put his own clothes[f] on him, and they led him out so that they could crucify him.
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- Mark 15:17 Here “after” is supplied as a component of the participle (“weaving”) which is understood as temporal
- Mark 15:17 Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
- Mark 15:19 The imperfect tense has been translated as iterative here (“repeatedly struck”)
- Mark 15:19 Literally “bending the knees”
- Mark 15:19 Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“knelt down”) has been translated as a finite verb
- Mark 15:20 Some manuscripts have “his clothes” in place of “his own clothes”
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