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They dressed him in purple and wove thorn branches into a crown, which they put on him.
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Then they began to salute him, "Hail to the King of the Jews!"
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They hit him on the head with a stick, spat on him and kneeled in mock worship of him.
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When they had finished ridiculing him, they took off the purple robe, put his own clothes back on him and led him away to be nailed to the execution-stake.
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A certain man from Cyrene, Shim`on, the father of Alexander and Rufus, was passing by on his way in from the country; and they forced him to carry the stake.
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They brought Yeshua to a place called Gulgolta (which means "place of a skull"),
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and they gave him wine spiced with myrrh, but he didn't take it.
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Then they nailed him to the execution-stake; and they divided his clothes among themselves, throwing dice to determine what each man should get.
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It was nine in the morning when they nailed him to the stake.
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Over his head, the written notice of the charge against him read, THE KING OF THE JEWS
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On execution-stakes with him they placed two robbers, one on his right and one on his left.