It was about eight o'clock when the procession reached the palace of
Pilate. The crowd was dense, and the Pharisees might be seen walking to
and fro, endeavouring to incite and infuriate them still more. Pilate,
who remembered an insurrection which had taken place the year before at
the Paschal time, had assembled upwards of a thousand soldiers, whom he
posted around the Praetorium, the Forum, and his palace.

The Blessed Virgin, her elder sister Mary (the daughter of Heli),
Mari (the daughter of Cleophas), Magdalen, and about twenty of the holy
women, were standing in a room from whence they could see all which
took place, and at first John was with them.

The Pharisees led Jesus, still clothed in the fool's garment, through
the midst of the insolent mob, and had done all in their power to
gather together the most vile and wicked of miscreants from among the
dregs of the people. A servant sent by Herod had already reached
Pilate, with a message to the effect that his master had fully
appreciated his polite deference to his opinion, but that he looked
upon the far famed Galilean as not better than a fool, that he had
treated him as such, and now sent him back. Pilate was quite satisfied
at finding that Herod had come to the same conclusion as himself, and
therefore returned a polite message. From that hour they became
friends, having been enemies many years; in fact, ever since the
falling-in of the aqueduct.

[The cause of the quarrel between Pilate and Herod was, according
to the account of Sister Emmerich, simply this: Pilate had undertaken
to build an aqueduct on the south-east side of the mountain on which
the Temple stood, at the edge of the torrent into which the waters of
the pool of Bethsaida emptied themselves, and this aqueduct was to
carry off the refuse of the Temple. Herod, through the medium of one of
his confidants, who was a member of the Sanhedrin, agreed to furnish
him with the necessary materials, as also with twenty-eight architects,
who were also Herodians. His aim was to set the Jews still more against
the Roman governor, by causing the undertaking to fail. He accordingly
came to a private understanding with the architects, who agreed to
construct the aqueduct in such a manner that it would be certain to
fail. When the work was almost finished, and a number of bricklayers
from Ophel were busily employed in removing the scaffolding, the
twenty-eight builders went on to the top of the Tow