27 ²⁷ PILATE'S SOLDIERS then took Jesus into the Governor's headquarters, where they collected the whole company round him. 27 ²⁸ First they stripped him and dressed him in a scarlet mantle; 27 ²⁹ and plaiting a crown of thorns they placed it on his head, with a cane in his right hand. Falling on their knees before him they jeered at him: 'Hail, King of the Jews!' 27 ³⁰ They spat on him, and used the cane to beat him about the head. 27 ³¹ Finally, when the mockery was over, they took off the mantle and dressed him in his own clothes.

Then they led him away to be crucified.