John Gill Reformed Baptist @doctorgill

Saying, prophesy unto us, thou Christ,.... Not that they owned him to be the Messiah; but because he asserted himself to be the Messiah, and his followers believed in him as such, they call him so; and in an ironical and sarcastic way, call upon him to divine, and tell them who the persons were, that used him in this manner; suggesting, that if he...

Albert Barnes Presbyterian @notesbybarnes

Verse 67. They spit in his face. This, among the Jews, as among us, was significant of the highest contempt and insult, ; . And buffeted him. That is, they struck him with their hands closed, or with the fist. Others smote him with the palms of their hands. The word used in the original here means, literally to strike with rods.