Then Pilate said, "You will not speak to me? Do you not know it is in my power to release you or to crucify you?"
But it is your custom that I should release a prisoner for you at the passover. Is it your will that I release you the king of the Jews?"
he went inside the praetorium again and asked Jesus, "Where do you come from?" Jesus made no reply.
Jesus answered, "You would have no power over me, unless it had been granted you from above. So you are less guilty than he who betrayed me to you."