Then Pilate asked him, “Don’t you hear how many charges they’re bringing against you?”
The chief priest stood up and said to Jesus, “Don’t you have any answer to what these men testify against you?”
While the chief priests and leaders were accusing him, he said nothing.
But Jesus said absolutely nothing to him in reply, so the governor was very surprised.
Pilate answered, “Am I a Jew? Your own people and the chief priests handed you over to me. What have you done?”
So the officer ordered the soldiers to take Paul into the barracks and told them to question Paul as they whipped him. The officer wanted to find out why the people were yelling at Paul like this.