Mark 15:16

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

Then the soldiers led Jesus away to the courtyard of the governor’s headquarters, where they assembled the entire battalion.

Cross References

John 19:9

and went back into the headquarters again and said to Jesus, “Where did you come from?” But Jesus did not answer him.

John 18:28

Then, early in the morning they led Jesus from Caiaphas to [Governor Pilate’s] headquarters. But the Jewish authorities would not enter it, because [if they had] they would have become ceremonially unclean, and could not eat the Passover meal. [Note: This was because they regarded a Gentile house as defiling].

Matthew 26:3

Then the leading priests and elders of the [Jewish] people were gathered in the courtroom of the head priest, named Caiaphas.

Acts 10:1

Now there was a certain man in Caesarea named Cornelius. He was [a military man] in charge of one hundred soldiers and belonged to the “battalion of Italy.”

John 18:33

So, Pilate went back into his headquarters and called for Jesus. He said to Him, “Are you the King of the Jews?”

Mark 15:17

They placed a purple robe on Him [Note: Matt. 27:28 calls this a “scarlet” robe. In that day, any color with a mixture of “red” in it was often called “purple”], and making a wreath out of thorns, they placed it on His head.

John 19:2

The soldiers wove thorny twigs into a crown and placed it on His head and dressed Him in a purple robe.