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Mark 15:19

Mark 15:19

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

And they smote his head with a reed—the same reed, according to St. Matthew (, ), which they bad first put into his right hand as a scepter, to complete the mocking symbolism—and did spit upon him ( ἐνέπτυον αὐτῷ).

The verb is in the imperfect; they did it again and again.

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