The soldiers in charge of the prisoner conduct Him into the barracks (ἔσω τῆς αὐλῆς, ὅ ἐστιν πραιτώριον = into the court, that is, the praetorium Weizsäcker), and call together their comrades to have some sport. ὅλην τὴν σπεῖραν : “a popular exaggeration” (Sevin); at most 200 men.

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