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Mark 15:17
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They dressed him in a purple robe, twisted together a crown of thorns, and put it on him.
And they clothed him with purple, and platted a crowne of thornes, and put it about his head,
And they clothed him in a purple cloak, and twisting together a crown of thorns, they put it on him.
And they dressed Him in purple, and after twisting together a crown of thorns, they put it on Him;
They put a purple robe on Jesus and used thorny branches to make a crown for his head.
They dressed Him up in [a ranking Roman officer's robe of] purple, and after twisting [together] a crown of thorns, they placed it on Him;
They dressed Him up in purple, and after twisting a crown of thorns, they put it on Him;
And they *dressed Him up in purple, and after twisting a crown of thorns, they *put it on Him;
They dressed Him in a purple robe, twisted together a crown of thorns, and set it on His head.
They put a purple robe on him, and on his head they placed a crown that they had made out of thorn branches.
They dressed him in purple and wove thorn branches into a crown, which they put on him.
And they clothe him with purple, and bind round on him a crown of thorns which they had plaited.
They put a purple robe on Jesus, made a crown from thorny branches, and put it on his head.
And clad him with purple, and platted a crowne of thornes, and put it about his head,
And they dressed him in purple, and wove a crown of thorns and put it on him.
They put a purple robe on Jesus, made a crown out of thorny branches, and put it on his head.
And they put a purple cloak on him, and after weaving a crown of thorns they placed it on him.
And they put purple on Him, and they plaited and placed a crown of thorns on Him.
And they clothe him with purple, and platting a crown of thorns, they put it on him;
And they put a purple robe on him, and twisting a crown of thorns, they put it on him;
They clothed him with purple, and weaving a crown of thorns, they put it on him.
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and they robed him in purple, and twisted and set upon him a crown of thorns,
and they clothed him in purple, and braided a crown of thorns and put upon him;
And they clothed hym with purple, and they platted a crowne of thornes, and crowned hym withall,
And they clothe him with purple, and plaiting a crown of thorns, they put it on him;
They clothed him with purple, and weaving a crown of thorns, they put it on him.
And they clothe him with purple, and having platted a crown of thorns, put it about his head.
they arrayed Him in crimson, placed on His head a wreath of thorny twigs which they had twisted,
and clothiden hym with purpur. And thei writhen a coroun of thornes, and puttiden on hym.
And they clothe him with purple, and platting a crown of thorns, they put it on him;
And they clothed him with purple, and platted a crown of thorns, and put it about his [head],
They put a purple cloak on him and after braiding a crown of thorns, they put it on him.
And they clothed Him with purple; and they twisted a crown of thorns, put it on His head,
They dressed him in a purple robe, and they wove thorn branches into a crown and put it on his head.
The soldiers put a purple coat on Him. They put a crown of thorns on His head,
And they clothed him in a purple cloak; and after twisting some thorns into a crown, they put it on him.
and they array him in purple, and set upon him, when they have plaited it; a crown of thorns, -
And they clothed him with purple: and, platting a crown of thorns, they put it upon him.
And they clothed him in a purple cloak, and plaiting a crown of thorns they put it on him.
and they clothed him with purple and they platted a croune of thornes and crouned him with all
and clothe him with purple, and having plaited a crown of thorns, they put [it] on him,
and clothed him with purple, and plated a crowne of thorne, and crowned him withall,
and they put on him a purple cloth, and set a wreath of thorns upon his head for a crown;
They put a purple cape on him and wove a crown of thorns that they smashed on his head. The blood ran into Jesus's eyes and down his face.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Matthew 27:28-30, Luke 23:11, John 19:2-5
Reciprocal: Job 30:1 - whose Psalms 69:12 - I was Mark 10:34 - mock Luke 16:19 - purple Luke 18:32 - mocked Hebrews 9:19 - scarlet
Cross-References
And Abram said, Lord God, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus?
And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir.
In the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:
The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,
But the Lord hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, even out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as ye are this day.
Then the angel of the Lord put forth the end of the staff that was in his hand, and touched the flesh and the unleavened cakes; and there rose up fire out of the rock, and consumed the flesh and the unleavened cakes. Then the angel of the Lord departed out of his sight.
For it came to pass, when the flame went up toward heaven from off the altar, that the angel of the Lord ascended in the flame of the altar. And Manoah and his wife looked on it, and fell on their faces to the ground.
There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
And David built there an altar unto the Lord , and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called upon the Lord ; and he answered him from heaven by fire upon the altar of burnt offering.
For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And they clothed him with purple,.... Matthew calls it a "scarlet" robe; and the Persic version here renders it a "red garment": it was of a colour resembling purple; it was pretty near it, and therefore so called; which is what kings were used to wear; and so in derision of him, as a king, clothed him with this mock purple robe; and which was very likely one of the soldiers' old coats:
and platted a crown of thorns, and put it about his head; for a crown, and also a reed in his hand, instead of a sceptre, as Matthew relates; :-,
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Barnes' Notes on the Bible
With purple - Matthew says scarlet. See the notes at Matthew 27:28.
About his head - In the form of a garland or diadem. The whole head was not covered, but it was placed in a circle round the temples.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 17. And platted a crown of thorns — In the note on Matthew 27:29, I have ventured to express a doubt whether our Lord was crowned with thorns, in our sense of the word; this crown being designed as an instrument of torture. I am still of the same opinion, having considered the subject more closely since writing that note. As there I have referred to Bishop Pearce, a man whose merit as a commentator is far beyond my praise, and who, it is to be regretted, did not complete his work on the New Testament, I think it right to insert the whole of his note here.
"The word ακανθων may as well be the plural genitive case of the word ακανθος as of ακανθη: if of the latter, it is rightly translated, of thorns; but the former would signify what we call bear's-foot, and the French, branche ursine. This is not of the thorny kind of plants, but is soft and smooth. Virgil calls it mollis acanthus, Ecl. iii. 45, Geor. iv. 137. So does Pliny, sec. Epist. ver. 6. And Pliny the elder, in his Nat. Hist. xxii. 22, p. 277, edit. Hard., says that it is laevis, smooth; and that it is one of those plants that are cultivated in gardens. I have somewhere read, but cannot at present recollect where, that this soft and smooth herb was very common in and about Jerusalem. I find nothing in the New Testament said concerning this crown, which Pilate's soldiers put on the head of Jesus, to incline one to think that it was of thorns, and intended, as is usually supposed, to put him to pain. The reed put into his hand, and the scarlet robe on his back, were only meant as marks of mockery and contempt. One may also reasonably judge, by the soldiers being said to plat this crown, that it was not composed of such twigs and leaves as were of a thorny nature. I do not find that it is mentioned by any of the primitive Christian writers as an instance of the cruelty used towards our Saviour, before he was led to his crucifixion, till the time of Tertullian, who lived after Jesus's death at the distance of above 160 years. He indeed seems to have understood ακανθων in the sense of thorns, and says, De Corona Militar. sect. xiv. edit. Pamel. Franck. 1597, Quale, oro te, Jesus Christus sertum pro utroque sexu subiit? Ex spinis, opinor, et tribulis. The total silence of Polycarp, Barnabas, Clem. Romanus, and all the other Christian writers whose works are now extant, and who wrote before Tertullian, in particular, will give some weight to incline one to think that this crown was not platted with thorns. But as this is a point on which we have not sufficient evidence, I leave it almost in the same state of uncertainty in which I found it. The reader may see a satisfactory account of acanthus, bear's-foot, in Quincy's English Dispensatory, part ii. sect. 3, edit. 8, 1742."
This is the whole of the learned and judicious prelate's note; on which I have only to observed that the species of acanthus described by Virgil and the two Plinys, as mollis and laevis, soft and smooth, is, no doubt, the same as that formerly used in medicine, and described by Quincy and other pharmacopaeists; but there are other species of the same plant that are prickly, and particularly those called the acanthus spinosus, and the ilicifolius, the latter of which is common in both the Indies: this has leaves something like our common holly, the jagged edges of which are armed with prickles; but I do not conceive that this kind was used, nor indeed any other plant of a thorny nature, as the Roman soldiers who platted the crown could have no interest in adding to our Lord's sufferings; though they smote him with the rod, yet their chief object was to render him ridiculous, for pretending, as they imagined, to regal authority. The common wild acanthas or bear's-foot, which I have often met in the dry turf bogs in Ireland, though it have the appearance of being prickly, yet is not, in fact, so. Several shoots grow from one root, about four or five inches long, and about as thick as a little finger. A parcel of such branches, platted by their roots in a string, night be made to look even ornamental, tied about the temples and round the head. It would finely imitate a crown or diadem. But I know not if this plant be a native of Judea.
