Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas unto the hall of judgment: and it was early; and they themselves went not into the judgment hall, lest they should be defiled; but that they might eat the passover.
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Bede
AD 735
The praetorium is the place where the praetor sat. Praetors were called prefects and preceptors, because they issue decrees.
It was the custom of the Jews when they condemned any oneto death, to notify it to the governor, by delivering the man bound.