“Are you refusing to speak to me?” Pilate said. “Don’t you understand? I have the power to set you free or to nail you to a cross.”
But your tradition is to ask me to set one prisoner free for you at Passover time. Do you want me to set ‘the king of the Jews’ free?”
He went back inside the palace and asked Jesus, “Where do you come from?” But Jesus didn’t answer him.
Jesus answered, “You wouldn’t have any power over me if it hadn’t been given to you from heaven. So the one who handed me over to you is guilty of a greater sin.”