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Who put the robe on Jesus?
Luke assigns a robing scene to Herod's party, while the other accounts describe soldiers under Pilate clothing Jesus.
- Textual conflict
- Weak contradiction
- The supplied passages do not establish incompatible claims. Different events, meanings, or conditions may account for the difference.
- Importance
- Minor
- A local detail in a story, chronology, or inventory.
Luke places Herod's robing before the return to Pilate, allowing the later soldiers' robe as a distinct scene without an exclusive one-robe claim.
An editorial assessment of the quoted passages. Importance describes the stakes; it does not increase certainty. Reading order weighs both.
Herod and his soldiers dress Jesus in a gorgeous robe
And Herod with his men of war set him at nought, and mocked him, and arrayed him in a gorgeous robe, and sent him again to Pilate.
Luke 23:11
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
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Pilate's soldiers dress Jesus in a mocking royal robe
Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the common hall, and gathered unto him the whole band of soldiers. And they stripped him, and put on him a scarlet robe.
Matthew 27:27-28
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)