Moffatt(i)
27 Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the praetorium and got all the regiment round him;
28 they stripped him and threw a scarlet mantle round him,
29 plaited a crown of thorns and set it on his head, put a stick in his hand, and knelt before him in mockery, crying, "Hail, king of the Jews!"
30 They spat on him, they took the stick and struck him on the head,