Then they spit on Him and took the staff and struck Him on the head repeatedly.
And after that they had mocked him,.... Gone through the whole farce, and glutted themselves with derision of him, and with sport and diversion with him, they took the robe off from him; it belonging to one of their company, and put his own raiment on him; partly that he might be known to be the selfsame person that was condemned and committed to them...
Verse 30. And they spit upon him. This was a token of the deepest contempt and insult. . And took the reed. The cane, probably so large as to inflict a heavy blow. And smote him on the head. Not merely to injure him by the force of the blow, but to press the thorns into his head, and thus to add cruelty to insult. (b) "spit"