Mark 15:16-24

16So the soldiers took Jesus to the yard at the ruler's house. They told all the soldiers in their group to come there.

17Then they put a dark red coat on Jesus. They used some branches with thorns to make a crown for him. They put it on his head.

18Then the soldiers began to laugh at Jesus. They said, ‘Hello, King of the Jews, you are great!’

19They 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.

20When 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.

21When the soldiers were taking Jesus out to that place, a man called Simon was there. He was coming in from outside the city. He was from the city of Cyrene, and he was the father of Alexander and Rufus. The soldiers told Simon that he must carry Jesus' cross.

22The soldiers took Jesus to a place that is called Golgotha. (Golgotha means ‘the place of a skull’.)

23They tried to give Jesus some wine to drink. They had mixed some medicine called myrrh into the wine. But Jesus would not drink it.

24Then the soldiers fixed Jesus onto the cross. They took his clothes for themselves. They played a game to decide which soldier would receive each of his clothes.