And they spit upon him
The Syriac and Persic versions add, "upon his face", which he did
not hide from spitting; see ( Isaiah 1:6 ) , and so
what with sweat, by being hurried from place to place, and with
blood trickling down from his temples, scratched with thorns, and
with the spittle of these filthy soldiers, his visage was more
marred than any man's, and his form than the sons of men, (
Isaiah
52:14 ) .
And took the reed,
or "cane", which was put into his right hand,
and smote him on the head;
whereby they drove the sharp points of the thorns into it, which
must give him inexpressible pain and torture.
