They were in a daze.
There was one who sat in the sun and ever searched his body and stared and stared at the smooth flesh as if unable to believe his eyes.

He would not speak, nor look at aught else than his flesh, when I questioned him.

He was in a maze.

He sat there in the sun and stared and stated." Pilate smiled contemptuously, and I noted the quiet smile on Miriam's face was equally contemptuous.

And Pilate's wife sat as if a corpse, scarce breathing, her eyes wide and unseeing.
Spoke Ambivius: "Caiaphas holds--he told me but yesterday--that the fisherman claims that he will bring God down on earth and make here a new kingdom over which God will rule--" "Which would mean the end of Roman rule," I broke in.
"That is where Caiaphas and Hanan plot to embroil Rome," Miriam explained.