- They stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him, and after twisting some thorns into a crown, they put it on his head. They put a reed in his right hand and knelt before him and mocked him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!”
- Over his head they put the charge against him, which read, “This is Jesus, the King of the Jews.”
For God did not give us a spirit of cowardice, but rather a spirit of power and of love and of self-discipline.