He told it to his father and to his brothers. His father rebuked him, and said to him, *What is this dream that you have dreamed? Will I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow ourselves down to you to the earth?*
Come now therefore, and let's kill him, and cast him into one of the pits, and we will say, 'An evil animal has devoured him.' We will see what will become of his dreams.*
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!*
