Then Pilate said to Him, "Are You not speaking to me? Do You not know that I have authority to crucify You, and I have authority to release You?"
"But you have a custom that I should release someone to you at the Passover. Therefore do you wish that I should release the King of the Jews?"
Jesus answered, "You would have no authority at all against Me unless it had been given to you from above. Therefore the one who betrayed Me to you has a greater sin."
and he entered into the Praetorium again, and said to Jesus, "Where are You from?" But Jesus gave him no answer.