Then the governor's soldiers took Jesus into the governor's residence and gathered the whole cohort around him.

They began to salute him: "Hail, king of the Jews!"

Then they brought Jesus from Caiaphas to the Roman governor's residence. (Now it was very early morning.) They did not go into the governor's residence so they would not be ceremonially defiled, but could eat the Passover meal.

So Pilate went back into the governor's residence, summoned Jesus, and asked him, "Are you the king of the Jews?"

and he went back into the governor's residence and said to Jesus, "Where do you come from?" But Jesus gave him no answer.

He wrote a letter that went like this:

The whole imperial guard and everyone else knows that I am in prison for the sake of Christ,

What is the result? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is being proclaimed, and in this I rejoice. Yes, and I will continue to rejoice,