16The soldiers led him away inside the palace, which is the Praetorium, and called together the whole cohort[] of soldiers. 17They put a purple robe on him, twisted together a crown of thorns, and put it on him. 18The soldiers began to salute him, “Hail, King of the Jews!” 19They kept hitting him on the head with a reed and spitting on him. They also kneeled down to pay homage to him.
Footnotes
15:16A Roman cohort was about six hundred soldiers.