Christ buffeted and struck in His face

Saint Matthew - Chapter 26

Christ buffeted and struck in his face. J-J Tissot

[67] Tunc exspuerunt in faciem ejus, et colaphis eum ceciderunt, alii autem palmas in faciem ejus dederunt,
Then did they spit in his face, and buffeted him: and others struck his face with the palms of their hands,

[68] dicentes : Prophetiza nobis Christe, quis est qui te percussit?
Saying: Prophesy unto us, O Christ, who is he that struck thee?

Saint Mark - Chapter 14

[65] Et cœperunt quidam conspuere eum, et velare faciem ejus, et colaphis eum caedere, et dicere ei : Prophetiza : et ministri alapis eum caedebant.
And some began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to buffet him, and to say unto him: Prophesy: and the servants struck him with the palms of their hands.

Saint Luke - Chapter 22

[63] Et viri qui tenebant illum, illudebant ei, caedentes.
And the men that held him, mocked him, and struck him.

[64] Et velaverunt eum, et percutiebant faciem ejus : et interrogabant eum, dicentes : Prophetiza, quis est, qui te percussit?
And they blindfolded him, and smote his face. And they asked him, saying: Prophesy, who is it that struck thee?

[65] Et alia multa blasphemantes dicebant in eum.
And blaspheming, many other things they said against him.

From The Life of Our Lord Jesus Christ, by J-J Tissot (1897)

The subject are now represented takes us back to a little before the third denial of Peter, or at least to before the Lord turned and looked at him, for we assume that the look was given on the way to prison.  Jesus once condemned by acclamation on the suggestion of the Highly Priest himself, a nameless scene of horror began.  The Sanhedrim, instead of protecting Him from the crowd, as in such a case it was the duty of the legal authorities to do, abandoned Him to their mercy and thus sanctions the worst outrages.  It is true that the members of the Supreme Council did not themselves take any part in the insults heaped on Jesus, but there is not the slightest doubt that they were as responsible as if they had, for they certainly could have prevented them.

His persecutors flung themselves upon the Prisoner with a positively diabolical fury, raining blows upon Him, "spitting in His face, buffeting Him and smiting Him with the palms of their hands." They blindfolded Him with a dirty rag, and as they struck Him a mocked Him, saying: "Prophecy unto us, thou Christ, who is he that smote thee?" Truly the unfortunate Victim paid dearly enough now four His brief triumph on Palm Sunday, for the homage paid to Him at Bethany, for the precious ointment of Mary Magdalene and for His few short moments of joy, which He must now expiate with all this agony and humiliation.

The enemies of the Prophet cannot but have been intoxicated with the thought of having Him, Who had previously cause them so much anxiety, in their hands under such conditions.  But the night was far spent, even the tormentors were getting weary, and there was no longer any danger of the escape of their Victim.  The crowd now melted away and the guards led Jesus, with soiled garments, bleeding face, and limbs bruised by the blows He had received and galled by His fetters, as He had now been bound some four hours, it being already three o'clock in the morning, that is to say, four hours since he was taken prisoner.  Long before, Job had had said, and his words were perhaps prophetic of the sufferings of Christ: "They have opened their mouths upon me, and reproaching me they have struck me on the cheek, they are filled with my pains." These words were literally fulfilled in the scene we have just described, and yet more remarkably true was the beautifully worded prophecy of Isaiah, when he glorified before hand the divine gentleness of the insulted messiah, saying: "I have given my body to the strikers, and my cheeks to them that plucked them: I have not turned away my face from them that rebuked me, and spit upon me."

Totus tuus ego sum 

Et omnia mea tua sunt;

Tecum semper tutus sum:
Ad Jesum per Mariam