2 Nephi 7:6

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6 I gave my back to the smiter, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair. I hid not my face from shame and spitting.

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Plucking the hair of a man’s face or beard was looked upon as a shameful way of degrading him. (See 2 Samuel 10:1-4.)…It is descriptive of the rude way in which [Christ] was treated by the Jews and the Romans during His final hours.

Hoyt W. Brewster Jr., Isaiah Plain & Simple, 211. See also Matthew 26:67.

The God who created everything was judged to be nothing? And yet he endured it with complete patience. Imagine the Being whose power, whose light, whose glory holds the universe in order, the Being who speaks and solar systems, galaxies, and stars come into existence—standing before wicked men and being judged by them as being of no worth or value! When we think of what he could have done to these men who took him to judgment, we have a new and different sense of his condescension. When Judas led the soldiers and the high priest to the Garden of Gethsemane and betrayed him with a kiss, Jesus could have spoken a single word and leveled the entire city of Jerusalem. When the servant of the high priest stepped forward and slapped his face, Jesus could have lifted a finger and sent that man back to his original elements. When another man stepped forward and spit in his face, Jesus had only to blink and our entire solar system could have been annihilated. But he stood there, he endured, he suffered, he condescended.

Gerald N. Lund, “Knowest Thou the Condescensions of God?” Doctrines of the Book of Mormon, 1991 Sperry Symposium, pp. 85-86