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.