They brought the donkey and the colt and placed their cloaks on them, and he sat on them.

Above his head they put the charge against him, which read: “This is Jesus, the king of the Jews.”

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!”