“Don't you hear how many charges they're bringing against you?” Pilate asked him.
The high priest stood up and asked Jesus, “Have you no answer? What do you have to say in your defense?”
But when the chief priests and elders brought charges against him, Jesus did not answer.
But Jesus didn't say anything, not a single word. This greatly surprised the governor.
“Am I a Jew?” Pilate countered. “It was your own people and high priests who handed you over to me. What is it that you've done?”
The commander ordered Paul brought into the fortress, and gave orders for him to be interrogated by flogging so he could find out the reason people were shouting so much against Paul.