Matthew 27:27-44
27:27 Then the governor’s soldiers took Jesus into the governor’s residence
and gathered the whole cohort
around him.
27:28 They
stripped him and put a scarlet robe
around him,
27:29 and after braiding
a crown of thorns,
they put it on his head. They
put a staff
in his right hand, and kneeling down before him, they mocked him:
“Hail, king of the Jews!”
27:30 They
spat on him and took the staff
and struck him repeatedly
on the head.
27:31 When
they had mocked him, they stripped him of the robe and put his own clothes back on him. Then
they led him away to crucify him.
The Crucifixion
27:32 As they were going out, they found a man from Cyrene named Simon, whom they forced to carry his cross.
27:33 They came to a place called Golgotha (which means “Place of the Skull”)
27:34 and offered Jesus wine mixed with gall to drink. But after tasting it, he would not drink it.
27:35 When they had crucified him, they divided his clothes by throwing dice.
27:36 Then they sat down and kept guard over him there.
27:37 Above his head they put the charge against him, which read: “This is Jesus, the king of the Jews.”
27:38 Then two outlaws were crucified with him, one on his right and one on his left.
27:39 Those who passed by defamed him, shaking their heads
27:40 and saying, “You who can destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save yourself! If you are God’s Son, come down from the cross!”
27:41 In the same way even the chief priests – together with the experts in the law and elders – were mocking him:
27:42 “He saved others, but he cannot save himself! He is the king of Israel! If he comes down now from the cross, we will believe in him!
27:43 He trusts in God – let God, if he wants to, deliver him now because he said, ‘I am God’s Son’!”
27:44 The robbers who were crucified with him also spoke abusively to him.