Mark 15:19
“And they smote him on the head with a reed, and did spit upon him, and bowing their knees worshipped him.”
And they clothed him with purple, and platted a crown of thorns, and put it about his head,
And began to salute him, Hail, King of the Jews!
And they smote him on the head with a reed, and did spit upon him, and bowing their knees worshipped him.
And when they had mocked him, they took off the purple from him, and put his own clothes on him, and led him out to crucify him.
And they compel one Simon a Cyrenian, who passed by, coming out of the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to bear his cross.
Counter-Arguments
The strongest case that this verse does not belong in this theme.
Cross-References
“I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.”
“He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.”
“Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.”
“And they spit upon him, and took the reed, and smote him on the head.”
“That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;”