John Trapp on John 18:24

Verſe 24. Bound, to Caiaphas the high-Prieſt.] Who ſhould have done our Saviour better juſtice, then to have ſuffred him, bound and uncondemned, to be injuriouſly beaten before his face. But the times were then law leſſe and licentious for the ſans of the people. Tales ſunt principum mores, quales ſubditorum humores, ut malo nodo non deſit malus cuneus.