A marble slab points out the place.
Mounting the steps once more, we come to the niche containing the pillar to which Jesus was bound when they crowned him with thorns.
It is called the pillar of scorn.

The pillar at which Jesus was scourged, a piece of which is preserved in Rome, is also shown.
The chapel belonging to the Greeks is very spacious, and may almost be termed a church within a church.

It is beautifully decorated.
It is very difficult to find the way in this church, which resembles a labyrinth.

Now we are obliged to ascend a flight of stairs, now again to descend.

The architect certainly deserves great praise for having managed so cleverly to unite all these holy places under one roof; and St.Helena has performed a most meritorious action in thus rescuing from oblivion the sacred sites in Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and Nazareth.
I was told, that when the Greeks celebrate their Easter here, the ceremonies seldom conclude without much quarrelling and confusion.
These irregularities are considerably increased when the Greek Easter happens to fall at the same time as that of the Roman Catholics.