Papa Yohane, ngakhale kuti anali wodziŵika kuti ndiye woimira bungweli, anafikapo ali ndi zokayikitsa zambiri, akumakayikira cholinga chachinsinsi cha mfumu yoti amuchotse paudindo wakeyo, ndiponso akuwopa kuti adzaimbidwa mlandu chifukwa cha zoipa zimene zinachititsa manyazi tiara, komanso milandu imene inachititsa kuti mfumuyo iwonongeke. anali ataziteteza izo. 
Pope John, while ostensibly the convoker of the council, came to it with many misgivings, suspecting the emperor’s secret purpose to depose him, and fearing to be brought to account for the vices which had disgraced the tiara, as well as for the crimes which had secured it.