Jesus Is Mocked

¹⁶tAnd the soldiers led him away inside uthe palace (that is, vthe governor's headquarters),2 and they called together the whole wbattalion.3 ¹⁷And they clothed him in xa purple cloak, and twisting together a crown of thorns, they put it on him. ¹⁸And they began to salute him, y“Hail, King of the Jews!” ¹⁹And they were striking his head with a reed and zspitting on him and akneeling down in homage to him. ²⁰And when they had bmocked him, they stripped him of xthe purple cloak and put his own clothes on him. And they cled him out to crucify him.

The Crucifixion

²¹dAnd they compelled a passerby, Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to carry his cross. ²²eAnd they brought him to the place called Golgotha (which means Place of a Skull). ²³And they offered him wine mixed with fmyrrh, but he did not take it. ²⁴And they crucified him and gdivided his garments among them, casting lots for them, to decide what each should take. ²⁵And hit was the third hour4 when they crucified him. ²⁶And the inscription of the charge against him read, i“The King of the Jews.” ²⁷And with him they crucified two jrobbers, kone on his right and one on his left.5 ²⁹And lthose who passed by derided him, mwagging their heads and saying, n“Aha! oYou who would destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, ³⁰save yourself, and come down from the cross!” ³¹So also the chief priests with the scribes mocked him to one another, saying, p“He saved others; qhe cannot save himself. ³²Let rthe Christ, sthe King of Israel, come down now from the cross that we may tsee and believe.” uThose who were crucified with him also reviled him.

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