The pageant of Christ’s ‘Trial Before Herod’ in the York Corpus Christi Cycle conflates and condenses some of the various mockeries of Jesus before Herod and Pilate as described in Matt. 27: 27–30, Mark 15: 17–20, Luke 22: 63–65; 23: 11, John 18: 22; 19: 2–3. Herod’s train (of noble courtiers or dukes, soldiers, and sons) view Christ as a ludicrous pretender to Herod’s own title of ‘King of the Jews.’ Frustrated once their taunts have failed to make Jesus respond, Herod’s first son suggests that Herod order his soldiers ‘to clothe [Jesus] in white’ (line 337). 1 As explained by Clifford Davidson in his generally informative 2011 edition of the Cycle,...