Jesus and a Mock Septer

     The Roman soldiers’ cruelty toward Jesus, included humiliation and torture. Matthew says they “put a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him.” Mark says “they smote him on the head with a reed, and did spit upon him, and bowing their knees, worshipped him” in sarcastic mockery (Matthew 27:29 ; Mark 15:19). The reed was a derisive symbol of a royal scepter.

Matthew 27:29