Matthew 27:26-28

²⁶ Then he released Barabbas to them; and when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered Him to be crucified. ²⁷ Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the Praetorium and gathered the whole garrison around Him. ²⁸ And they stripped Him and put a scarlet robe on Him.

Commentary

Pilate then capitulates to the desires of the crowd and releases to them Barabbas the notorious prisoner, and having done so he scourges Jesus before Jesus is led away from that horrible public spectacle where He has been so horribly treated and humiliated, back into the privy of the Praetorium, the place where Pilate’s guard and soldiers have assembled themselves to have sport with the Jesus who has now been condemned to death by him. This scene then is no less cruel as the soldier’s strip Jesus and put a scarlet robe on Him and begin mocking Him and His being a King.

Scripture Quotations: 

The New King James Version. (1982). Nashville: Thomas Nelson