John Trapp on Matthew 26:67

Verse 67. Then did they spit in his [illegible: 1 word] ] Condemned prisoners are sacred things: and, by the law of Nations, should not be misused and trampled on, but rather pitied and prepared for death. But these barbarous miscreants (not without the good liking of their Lords the Priests and Elders,) spare for no kinde of cruelty toward Christ, who was content to be spit upon, to cleanse our faces from the filth of sinne, to be buffeted with fists [non-Latin text not transcribed] [illegible: 2 words]. and beaten with staves, to free us from that mighty hand of God,Beza. 1 Peter 5. 6. and from those scourges and scorpions of infernall fiends.