So Pilate said to him, “Don’t you hear all these charges they are making against you? Why don’t you answer?”
Then the high priest stood up and said to Jesus, “Don’t you have anything to say about these charges against you? Are they telling the truth?”
Then the commander told the soldiers to take Paul into the army building and beat him. He wanted to make Paul tell why the people were shouting against him like this.
Pilate said, “I’m not a Jew! It was your own people and their leading priests who brought you before me. What have you done wrong?”
Then, when the leading priests and the older Jewish leaders made their accusations against Jesus, he said nothing.
But Jesus did not say anything, and this really surprised the governor.