But Jesus didn’t answer a single charge. The governor was amazed.
It feels as if God has put us apostles on display like the people who are put at the end of the procession to the arena because they’re going to die there. And it feels as if the whole universe is watching, both angels and humans.
But Jesus remained silent. The high priest said to him, “Tell us, under oath to the living God, whether you are the Messiah, the Son of God.”
But when the chief priests and the elders brought their charges against him, he didn’t respond.
Then Pilate asked him, “Don’t you hear the charges they’re bringing against you?”
But Jesus still didn’t reply, and Pilate was amazed.
Herod asked Jesus many questions, but he gave no answer.
He went back inside the palace and asked Jesus, “Where do you come from?” But Jesus didn’t answer him.