They clothed him in purple and, weaving a crown of thorns, placed it on him.
The soldiers led him away inside the palace, that is, the praetorium, and assembled the whole cohort.
They began to salute him with, “Hail, King of the Jews!”
[Even] Herod and his soldiers treated him contemptuously and mocked him, and after clothing him in resplendent garb, he sent him back to Pilate.