18. They began to salute him with, “Hail, King of the Jews!”
19. and kept striking his head with a reed and spitting upon him. They knelt before him in homage.
20. And when they had mocked him, they stripped him of the purple cloak, dressed him in his own clothes, and led him out to crucify him.
21. They pressed into service a passer-by, Simon, a Cyrenian, who was coming in from the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to carry his cross.
22. They brought him to the place of Golgotha (which is translated Place of the Skull).
23. They gave him wine drugged with myrrh, but he did not take it.
24. Then they crucified him and divided his garments by casting lots for them to see what each should take.
25. It was nine o’clock in the morning when they crucified him.
26. The inscription of the charge against him read, “The King of the Jews.”
27. With him they crucified two revolutionaries, one on his right and one on his left. [
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29. Those passing by reviled him, shaking their heads and saying, “Aha! You who would destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days,
30. save yourself by coming down from the cross.”
31. Likewise the chief priests, with the scribes, mocked him among themselves and said, “He saved others; he cannot save himself.