 Physical pain. I don't want to go into this too much, but we know this. What some of us might not know is he was beaten by three different garrisons of guards. He was beaten by the Jewish guards, Herod's guards, and Pilate's guards. They beat him with their fists, the Bible says. They plucked the beard from his face. They pulled the beard out of his face. They beat him with rods.