Mark 15:17 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Bible Comments

Purple — As royal robes were usually purple and scarlet, St. Mark and John term this a purple robe, St. Matthew a scarlet one. The Tyrian purple is said not to have been very different from scarlet.

Mark 15:17

17 And they clothed him with purple, and platted a crown of thorns, and put it about his head,