Mark 15:15-21

15 So Pilate, wishing to satisfy the crowd, released for them Barabbas, and having ¹scourged^[a] Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified.

Jesus Is Mocked

16 ²And the soldiers led him away inside ³the palace (that is, ⁴the governor's headquarters),^[b] and they called together the whole ⁵battalion.^[c]

17 And they clothed him in ⁶a purple cloak, and twisting together a crown of thorns, they put it on him.

18 And they began to salute him, ⁷"Hail, King of the Jews!"

19 And they were striking his head with a reed and ⁸spitting on him and ⁹kneeling down in homage to him.

20 And when they had ¹⁰mocked him, they stripped him of ¹¹the purple cloak and put his own clothes on him. And they ¹²led him out to crucify him.

The Crucifixion

21 ¹³And they compelled a passerby, Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to carry his cross.

Cross References

• 1. Mark 10:34; Isaiah 50:6; Isaiah 53:5; [Luke 23:16; John 19:1]
• 2. For ver. 16-20, see Matthew 27:27-31; John 19:2, 3
• 3. See Matthew 26:3
• 4. John 18:28, 33; John 19:9; Acts 23:35; Philippians 1:13(Gk.)
• 5. See Acts 10:1
• 6. Revelation 18:12, 16; [Luke 23:11]
• 7. See ver. 2
• 8. See Mark 14:65
• 9. See Matthew 8:2
• 10. Mark 10:34
• 11. [See ver. 17 above]
• 12. Isaiah 53:7
• 13. Matthew 27:32; Luke 23:26; [John 19:17]

Footnotes

• [a]. A Roman judicial penalty, consisting of a severe beating with a multi-lashed whip containing imbedded pieces of bone and metal
• [b]. Greek the praetorium
• [c]. Greek cohort; a tenth of a Roman legion, usually about 600 men