2And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and they put on him a purple robe,
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And the soldiers led him away into the hall, called Praetorium; and they call together the whole band. …
But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.
Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the common hall, and gathered unto him the whole band of soldiers. …
He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
And Herod with his men of war set him at nought, and mocked him, and arrayed him in a gorgeous robe, and sent him again to Pilate.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-15)Here is a further account of the unfair trial which they gave to our Lord Jesus. The prosecutors carrying it on with great confusion among the people, and the judge with great confusion in his own breast, between both the narrative is such as is not easily reduced to method; we must therefore take the parts of it as they lie. I. The judge abuses the prisoner, though he declares him innocent, and h…
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