Now Annas had sent him bound unto Caiaphas the high priest.
Ver. 24. Bound to Caiaphas the high priest] Who should have done our Saviour better justice than to have suffered him, bound and uncondemned, to be injuriously beaten before his face. But the times were then lawless and licentious for the sins of the people. Tales sunt principum mores, quales subditorum humores, ut malo nodo non desit malus cuneus.