²⁶ Then he set Barabbas free. But he had Jesus ·beaten with whips [scourged; flogged] and handed over to the soldiers to be crucified.

²⁷ The governor’s soldiers took Jesus into the ·governor’s palace [fortress; headquarters; ^LPraetorium], and ·they all gathered around him [or the whole regiment/company/cohort was assembled; ^Ca cohort was about five hundred soldiers; here it may mean those of the cohort on duty]. ²⁸ They ·took off his clothes [stripped him] and put a ·red [scarlet] robe on him [^Cprobably a scarlet military coat, whose color resembled purple, the color of royalty].