then they dressed him in purple, put on his head a crown of thorns which they had plaited,
Then Herod and his troops scoffed at him and made fun of him, and after arraying him in a bright robe he remitted him to Pilate.
The soldiers took him inside the courtyard (that is, the praetorium) and got all the regiment together;
and began to salute him with, "Hail, O king of the Jews!"