[27] Then the governor’s soldiers took Jesus into the governor’s residence and gathered the whole company around him. [28] They stripped him and dressed him in a scarlet robe. [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. [32] As they were going out, they found a Cyrenian man named Simon. They forced him to carry his cross.
[37] Above his head they put up the charge against him in writing: This Is Jesus, the King of the Jews.
