LORD, you have persuaded me, and I was persuaded; you are stronger than I, and have prevailed: I am become a laughing-stock all the day, every one mocks me.
They braided a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and a reed in his right hand; and they kneeled down before him, and mocked him, saying, *Hail, King of the Jews!*
They ridiculed him. But he, having put them all out, took the father of the child and her mother and those who were with him, and went in where the child was lying.