“And they spit upon him, and took the reed, and smote him on the head.”
King James Version (KJV)
27:28 They put on him a scarlet robe - Such as kings and generals wore; probably an old tattered one.
27:32 Him they compelled to bear his cross - He bore it himself, till he sunk under it, #John 19:17|.
Mt 27:30 They spat upon him. In order to show still greater contempt. Brutal as these heathen soldiers were, they were no more so than the Jewish Sanhedrin had been.