Old Testament

Matthew 27:27-30
Soldiers Mock Jesus
27Then the governor's soldiers took Jesus into the Praetorium and gathered the whole cohort[] of soldiers around him. 28They stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him. 29They twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head. They put a staff in his right hand, knelt in front of him, and mocked him by saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” 30They spit on him, took the staff, and hit him repeatedly on his head.

Footnotes

  • 27:27 A Roman cohort was about six hundred soldiers.