The scourging of Jesus is recounted in Matthew 27:26 (cached), Mark 15:15 (cached), and John 19:1 (cached).  Images normally show not the scourging itself but Jesus tied to a pillar with an expression of pain, his back showing the effects of the lash, as at left and in this example.

After the scourging the Roman soldiers put a crown of thorns on Jesus' head and dress him in a purple cloak, according to Matthew 27:27-31 (cached), Mark 15:16-20 (cached), and John 19:2-5 (cached). Images of the actual placing of the crown (example) are not as common as other episodes in the Passion.

Then, according to John 19:5-6 (cached), Pilate brings Jesus out before the crowd in his humiliating crown and cloak and says "Behold the man." The Latin for that phrase is Ecce homo, the usual name for images of this episode. Some Ecce homo images represent the entire scene -- with Pilate and his men, a bound and bleeding Jesus in his crown and cloak, and a howling mob led by the chief priests (example). Others present only the figure of a bound Jesus, either with the cloak and crown (example) or without (example).

Many Spanish and Latin American localities have brotherhoods dedicated to El Cristo de la Humildad y Paciencia (Christ of Humility and Patience), a sculptural type similar to the Ecce Homo. On a low stone seat an exhausted Jesus sits bound and crowned with thorns (example), wearing brief pants, a rope yoke, and sometimes a red or purple cloak (example). He often holds the reed given him by the soldiers in Matthew 27:29 (cached). There are also paintings of this type (example).

In some parts of Oaxaca, Mexico, local people call santos of this type El Dios de la Peña ("The God of Suffering") or San Paciencia (example).

No passage in any of the gospels has Jesus seated at any time after the crowning with thorns, but the seated Jesus may derive from a misreading of John 19:13, where Pilate once again takes Jesus out in front of the crowd and "he sits down on the judgment seat" (Pilatus ergo cum audisset hos sermones adduxit foras Iesum et sedit pro tribunali).

Mexican santo
12th century French relief
Another Crowning with Thorns:
Tintoretto painting
Other Ecce Homos:
Messina painting, 15th century
Silver plaque, 17th century