Then the Governor's soldiers took Jesus into the Praetorium, and called together the whole battalion to make sport of Him.

and went on to salute Him with shouts of "Long live the King of the Jews."

So they brought Jesus from Caiaphas's house to the Praetorium. It was the early morning, and they would not enter the Praetorium themselves for fear of defilement, and in order that they might be able to eat the Passover.

Re-entering the Praetorium, therefore, Pilate called Jesus and asked Him, "Are *you* the King of the Jews?"

"What is your origin?" he asked. But Jesus gave him no answer.

He also wrote a letter of which these were the contents:

And thus it has become notorious among all the Imperial Guards, and everywhere, that it is for the sake of Christ that I am a prisoner;

What does it matter, however? In any case Christ is preached--either perversely or in honest truth; and in that I rejoice, yes, and will rejoice.