¹⁸ Then the soldiers began to laugh at Jesus. They said, ‘Hello, King of the Jews, you are great!’ ¹⁹ They took a stick and they hit him on the head with it many times. They spat on him. Then they went down on their knees in front of him. They told him how great he was. ²⁰ When they had stopped laughing at him, they took the dark red coat off him. They put his own clothes back on him. Then they took him away to the place where they would kill him on a cross.