Then Pilate said to him, “Do you not hear how many accusations they make against you?”
The high priest stood up and said, “Have you no answer? What is it that they testify against you?”
But when he was accused by the chief priests and elders, he did not answer.
But he gave him no answer, not even to a single charge, so that the governor was greatly amazed.
Pilate replied, “I am not a Jew, am I? Your own nation and the chief priests have handed you over to me. What have you done?”
the tribune directed that he was to be brought into the barracks and ordered him to be examined by flogging, to find out the reason for this outcry against him.