So now, come on, let’s kill him and throw him into one of the pits. We can say that a vicious animal ate him. Then we’ll see what becomes of his dreams! ’
He told his father and brothers, and his father rebuked him. ‘What kind of dream is this that you have had? ’ he said. ‘Am I and your mother and your brothers really going to come and bow down to the ground before you? ’
They twisted together a crown of thorns, put it on his head, and placed a staff in his right hand. And they knelt down before him and mocked him: ‘Hail, king of the Jews! ’
