There he threw himself on a stone, wrung his hands, and abandoned himself to weeping.
Jesus was at last brought into the hall before the Governor.

When Pilate saw Him in that unheard-of disguise, his temper began to rise.
He was not to be waked from His sleep for a joke.

Well, the Jews had mocked at their Messiah-King, and He would mock at them through Him.
He heard the accusation but found nothing in it.

"What ?" he said to the High Priests and their supporters, "I'm to condemn your King?
Why, what are you thinking of ?" Instead of terrifying the accused with his judicial dignity, he desired to enter into conversation with Him.
Although the Nazarene stood there in such wretched plight, He must have something in Him to have roused the masses as He did.

He wanted to make His acquaintance.