Luke 23:9

Plain English Version

So Herod asked him a lot of questions, but Jesus didn’t answer any of them.

Cross References

Matthew 7:6

Jesus kept on talking to them. He said, “There are some things that belong to God. Don’t give those things to people that don’t like God. Those people are like dogs. If you give them God’s things, they will rubbish them, and then they will turn around and bite you, just like dogs. And some of God’s things are really special. Don’t give them to people that don’t know that those things are special. They will rubbish those things. They will be just like pigs that don’t know good things. They will walk on them and push them into the mud.”

Mark 15:5

But Jesus said nothing, and Pilate was really shocked.

Luke 13:32

Jesus said, “Herod is a bad man, and he is tricky, like a wild dog. Tell him that I’m forcing bad spirits out of people, and I’m making sick people better, and I’ll keep on doing these things for a bit longer. Then I’ll finish my work.

Luke 23:10

The bosses of the Jewish ceremonies and the Jewish law teachers, they stood there all that time, shouting out and blaming Jesus.

John 19:9

He went back inside and asked Jesus, “Where are you from?” But Jesus didn’t answer him.

Acts 8:32

He was reading these words in God’s book, “Some people took him away to kill him, just like men take a sheep away to kill it, but he was quiet and didn’t say anything. You know that a sheep is quiet, and it doesn’t make a noise while men cut off all its wool, well, he was quiet, just like that.

1 Peter 2:23

People rubbished him, but he didn’t rubbish them back. They hit him with whips, but he didn’t talk to them in a bad way. No, he trusted God. God is the one that judges fairly.