A robe Jesus wears is variously described as scarlet or purple. Here are Matthew 27:28 and John 19:2 respectively:
You might also see Mark 15:17 mentioned, though Mark seems to use the word "cloak" rather than "robe". The contradiction is sharper between Matthew and John. Here are scarlet and purple, at least as defined by Wikipedia:
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They certainly seem like different colours. However, definitions change over time, and differ from place to place. There are cultures where green is considered a type of blue, for example. So, it's hard to be sure that the words 2,000 years ago really meant the same as our words. Thus, it's conceivable the two words referred to roughly the same colour.
However, Rational Christianity helpfully notes that in other passages, especially in Revelation, these words for purple and scarlet are definitely used to describe different colours. This is Revelation 17:4:
So here, "purple" and "scarlet" are different enough to be mentioned seperately. This renders the above explanation problematic, though I suppose you can imagine a colour roughly between scarlet and purple that might be described with either word. The Apologetics Press suggests the robe was an old discarded piece, faded and therefore of ambiguous colour. However, Luke 23:11 describes some "splendid clothing" that is put on Jesus, though I'm not entirely clear if this is the same incident.
Another suggestion is that Jesus was actually given two different pieces of clothing, or a striped robe. None of the gospel writers say anything like this, of course. Anyway, none of this is really convincing me, but I can't bring myself to classify the problem since I'm so unclear about what the words would actually mean to an ancient Greek.