'Governor's' in the Bible

"Now it was the Governor's custom at the Festival to release some one prisoner, whomsoever the populace desired;

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

So, after impatiently watching their opportunity, they sent spies who were to act the part of good and honest men, that they might fasten on some expression of His, so as to hand Him over to the ruling power and the Governor's authority.