The soldiers led him away inside the palace, that is, the praetorium, and assembled the whole cohort.
Then the chief priests and the elders of the people assembled in the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,
They clothed him in purple and, weaving a crown of thorns, placed it on him.
Then they brought Jesus from Caiaphas to the praetorium. It was morning. And they themselves did not enter the praetorium, in order not to be defiled so that they could eat the Passover.
So Pilate went back into the praetorium and summoned Jesus and said to him, “Are you the King of the Jews?”
And the soldiers wove a crown out of thorns and placed it on his head, and clothed him in a purple cloak,
and went back into the praetorium and said to Jesus, “Where are you from?” Jesus did not answer him.
Now in Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion of the Cohort called the Italica,