27:27–31 After the scourging, Pilate’s soldiers took Jesus into the Praetorium (the governor’s residence while in Jerusalem as well as barracks for his official guard) where, before the entire detachment, they stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him. Manuscripts reading endysantes (“clothed,” note similarity to ekdysantes, “stripped”) assume he was taken naked from the scourging. The chlamys was a short mantle that fastened at the left shoulder. The scarlet robe…