Jesus was led, by His religious accusers, to the Roman Governor’s residence.  As it was the Passover feast day, the Jews were not allowed any contact with anything unclean – so they would not go into the palace but stayed outside with Jesus so that they were not contaminated by Gentile impurity.  

The strange thing was that they had previously accused Jesus of being a blasphemer (John 10:36) and demon possessed (Matthew 12:24), so He should have been declared unclean, and they should not have touched Him!  But they were so determined to have Him killed that they waived some of their religious scruples.
 
In truth, it was the Jesus-haters who were unclean (Luke 6:45).  Yet they did not know that their victim’s cross was the only means by which their sins might be forgiven.  In thinking they were ‘all right’ and Jesus was ‘all wrong’, they demonstrated that their sinful hearts had brought deep confusion to their minds.
 
When we try to work against God (another example of sin), our minds become confused.  We cannot think straight and have to bend our own rules of living in order to achieve our wrong objectives.  Nothing is right even though we try to pretend that we are righteous.  It is a one-way street to disaster unless we stop and repent.