Mark 15:16-20

Jesus Is Mocked

16 So the soldiers led him away into the palace (that is, the governor's residence) and called together the whole cohort.

17 And they put a purple cloak on him, and [after] weaving a crown of thorns they placed [it] on him.

18 And they began to greet him, "Hail, king of the Jews!"

19 And they repeatedly struck him on the head with a reed, and were spitting on him, and {they knelt down} [and] did obeisance to him.

20 And when they had mocked him, they stripped him of the purple cloak and put his own clothes on him, and they led him out so that they could crucify him.

Footnotes

• [a]. *Here "[after]" is supplied as a component of the participle ("weaving") which is understood as temporal
• [b]. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
• [c]. The imperfect tense has been translated as iterative here ("repeatedly struck")
• [d]. Literally "bending the knees"
• [e]. *Here "[and]" is supplied because the previous participle ("knelt down") has been translated as a finite verb
• [f]. Some manuscripts have "his clothes" in place of "his own clothes"