Charles Spurgeon Commentary John 19:2

"And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and arrayed him in a purple garment;" — John 19:2 (ASV)

And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and they put on him a purple robe,

Mockery was blended with cruelty. They might have made him a crown, yet surely it need not have been one of thorns unless they intended to put him to the utmost torment that they could conceive.

By this crown of thorns our blessed Lord was crowned King of the curse, for the earth was cursed through Adam's sin, and part of the sentence pronounced by God in the garden of Eden was, Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee. So Christ wore the mark of the curse which man's sin had brought upon the world.