The soldiers took Jesus into the governor’s palace (called the Praetorium) and called all the other soldiers together.
Then the leading priests and the elders had a meeting at the palace of the high priest, named Caiaphas.
They put a purple robe on Jesus and used thorny branches to make a crown for his head.
Early in the morning they led Jesus from Caiaphas’s house to the Roman governor’s palace. They would not go inside the palace, because they did not want to make themselves unclean; they wanted to eat the Passover meal.
Then Pilate went back inside the palace and called Jesus to him and asked, “Are you the king of the Jews?”
The soldiers made a crown from some thorny branches and put it on Jesus’ head and put a purple robe around him.
He went back inside the palace and asked Jesus, “Where do you come from?” But Jesus did not answer him.
At Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, an officer in the Italian group of the Roman army.