John 19:5 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Behold the man!— While thesoldiers were acting their impious buffooneries, Pilate entered, and, seeing the humiliating condition of the suffering Jesus, he thought that now at least the rage of his enemies would be satiated, and that the most envenomed heart would relent at the appearance of so sad a spectacle; he therefore brought Jesus forth, and, shewing him to them, said, Behold the man. He added no more, concluding that the deplorable condition to which Jesus was reduced would plead sufficiently on his behalf, and extort compassion from the most obdurate. And indeed no sight could be more moving:-his sacred body torn with scourges, his head pierced with thorns, and the blood flowing from so many wounds down his face and hair, rendered him an object of the greatest pity.