Pilate Attempts to Release Jesus

19 So then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged.[a] And the soldiers wove a crown of thorns and placed it[b] on his head, and put a purple robe on him, and were coming up to him and saying, “Hail, king of the Jews!” and were giving him slaps in the face.

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Footnotes

  1. John 19:1 *This verb has causative force in context; Pilate did not personally carry out the sentence
  2. John 19:2 Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation