Graphic Bible · Scene 19 of 47

A soldier strikes Jesus’s thorn-crowned head with a reed while another spits at him.
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Mark 15:19

Struck and Mocked

The Cross and the Tomb · Mark 15

Story guide: The soldiers strike Jesus’s head with a reed, spit at him, and kneel before him in mock homage.

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19They kept striking his head with a reed and spitting on him, and they knelt and bowed before him in mock homage.

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