^42 (A)The soldiers' plan was to kill the prisoners, lest any should swim away and escape.

¹⁹ And after Herod searched for him and did not find him, he examined the sentries and ^(A)ordered that they should be put to death. Then he went down from Judea to Caesarea and spent time there.

⁴⁰ But the other rebuked him, saying, “Do you not fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation? ⁴¹ And we indeed justly, for we are receiving the due reward of our deeds; but this man has done nothing wrong.”

¹⁵ So Pilate, wishing to satisfy the crowd, released for them Barabbas, and having ^(A)scourged^[a] Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified.

Jesus Is Mocked

^16 (B)And the soldiers led him away inside ^(C)the palace (that is, ^(D)the governor's headquarters),^[b] and they called together the whole ^(E)battalion.^{[c] 17} And they clothed him in ^(F)a purple cloak, and twisting together a crown of thorns, they put it on him. ¹⁸ And they began to salute him, ^(G)“Hail, King of the Jews!” ¹⁹ And they were striking his head with a reed and ^(H)spitting on him and ^(I)kneeling down in homage to him. ²⁰ And when they had ^(J)mocked him, they stripped him of ^(K)the purple cloak and put his own clothes on him. And they ^(L)led him out to crucify him.

³ This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that ^(A)the same event happens to all. Also, the hearts of the children of man are full of evil, and ^(B)madness is in their hearts while they live, and after that they go to the dead.