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Sat down on the judgment seat (ekathisen epi bēmatos). “Took his seat upon the bēma” (the raised platform for the judge outside the palace as in Act 7:5). The examination is over and Pilate is now ready for the final stage.
The Pavement (Lithostrōton). Late compound from lithos, stone, and the verbal adjective strōtos form strōnnumi, to speak, a mosaic or tesselated pavement, spread with stones, in 2Ch 7:3, Josephus, Epictetus, papyri. The Chaldean name Gabbathā, an elevation, was apparently given because of the shape.