The Soldiers Mock Jesus

This passage again refers to the battalion but this time I am more inclined to believe it as other translations use a different word between the two passages, also as they were at the Roman barracks there's a good chance that both those on and off duty would turn up for this 'entertainment' and having at least a battalion available to govern Jerusalem would make sense. The Luke passage isn't a literal parallel as it takes place before hand and is carried out by Herod and his men, but I wanted to point out that both gentiles and Jews took a part in the mocking of Jesus. I think a lot of this to me symbolises that just as both Jews and Gentiles shunned, mocked, punished, and crucified Jesus so we all share in His sacrificial love, forgiveness, and most importantly salvation through His death and resurrection