Then the soldiers of the Governor took Jesus into the Praetorium, and gathered all the battalion together.

Then they began to salute him. "Hail, King of the Jews," they said.

From the house of Caiaphas they took Jesus to the Praetorium, and it was dawn. They themselves would not enter the Praetorium, in order that they might not be ceremonially defiled, but might be able to eat the Passover.

So Pilate went into the Praetorium again, and summoned Jesus. "Are you the King of the Jews?" he said.

and entering the Praetorium again, he said to Jesus, "What is your origin?"

He also wrote a letter in the following terms.

Throughout the whole Praetorian guard and among all the others it has become plain that these chains of mine are for the sake of Christ;

What of it? In any case, whether in pretence or in honest truth, Christ is still preached, and in that I am rejoicing, yes, and will rejoice.