For not one member, but the whole entire body throughout was made an object of insolence; the head through the crown, and the reed, and the buffeting; the face, being spit upon; the cheeks, being smitten with the palms of the hands; the whole body by the stripes, by being wrapped in the robe, and by the pretended worship; the hand by the reed, which they gave him to hold instead of a sceptre; the mouth again by the offering of the vinegar.  What could be more grievous than these things?  What more insulting? ...

Considering then all these things, control yourself.  For what do you suffer like what your Lord suffered?  Were you publicly insulted?  But not like these things.  Are you mocked?  Yet not your whole body, not being thus scourged, and stripped.  And even if you were buffeted, yet not like this.

-- Chrysostom, Homily 87 on Matthew