MATTHEW 27:31 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“And after that they had mocked him, they took the robe off from him, and put his own raiment on him, and led him away to crucify him.”
And when they had mocked him, they stripped him of the robe and put his own clothes on him and led him away to crucify him. The stripping of the mock royal garments and the restoration of his own clothes before the crucifixion journey: the public procession to the place of execution in his own clothes communicates the public character of the crucifixion as Roman punishment.
Church Fathers on Matthew 27:31
After the Evangelist had narrated what concerned the mocking of Christ, he proceeds to His crucifixion.
This is to be understood to have been done at the end of all when He was led off to crucifixion after Pilate had delivered Him up to the Jews.
It is to be noted, that when Jesus is scourged and spit upon, He has not on His own garments, but those which He took for our sins; but when He is crucified, and the show of His mockery is completed, then He takes again His former garments, and His own dress, and immediately the elements are shaken, and the creature gives testimony to the Creator.
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