Moffatt(i)
27 Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the praetorium and got all the regiment round him;
28 they stripped him and threw a scarlet mantle round him,
29 plaited a crown of thorns and set it on his head, put a stick in his hand, and knelt before him in mockery, crying, "Hail, king of the Jews!"
30 They spat on him, they took the stick and struck him on the head,
31 and after making fun of him they stripped him of the mantle, put on his own clothes, and took him off to be crucified.
32 As they went out they met a Cyrenian called Simon, whom they forced to carry his cross.
33 When they came to a place called Golgotha (meaning the place of a skull),
34 they gave him a drink of wine mixed with bitters; but when he tasted it he would not drink it.
35 Then they crucified him, distributed his clothes among them by drawing lots,
36 and sat down there to keep watch over him.
37 They also put over his head his charge in writing, THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS.
38 Two robbers were also crucified with him at that time, one on the right hand and one on the left.
39 Those who passed by scoffed at him, nodding at him in derision
40 and calling, "You were to destroy the temple and build it in three days! Save yourself, if you are God's Son! Come down from the cross!"
41 So, too, the high priests made fun of him with the scribes and the elders of the people.
42 "He saved others," they said, "but he cannot save himself! He the 'king of Israel'! Let him come down now from the cross; then we will believe in him!
43 His trust is in God? Let God deliver him now if he cares for him! He said he was the Son of God!"
44 The robbers who were crucified with him also denounced him in the same way.