Then came Jesus forth
Out of the judgment hall, or place where he had been scourged, as
soon as Pilate had said these words:
wearing the crown of thorns, and the purple
robe;
with his temples scratched and torn with the thorny crown, and
the blood running down from thence, and his face and eyes swollen
with the blows he had received from their closed fists, and all
besmeared with his own blood, and the soldiers' spittle; his body
appearing to be almost of the same colour with the purple or
scarlet robe, through the stripes and lashes he had received,
when that was thrown back.
And Pilate saith unto them, behold the man;
not their king, that would have provoked them; though he did say
so afterwards, when he found he could not prevail upon them to
agree to his release; but the man, to move their compassion;
signifying, that he was a man as they were, and that they ought
to use him as such, and treat him with humanity and pity; and
that he was a poor despicable man, as the condition he was in
showed; and that it was a weak thing in them to fear anything
with respect to any change of, or influence in, civil government
from one that made such a figure; and therefore should be
satisfied with what had been done to him, and dismiss him.