Then Pilate said to him, “Do you not hear how many things they testify against you?”
And the high priest stood up and said, “Have you no answer to make? What is it that these men testify against you?”
But when he was accused by the chief priests and elders, he made no answer.
But he gave him no answer, not even to a single charge; so that the governor wondered greatly.
Pilate answered, “Am I a Jew? Your own nation and the chief priests have handed you over to me; what have you done?”
the tribune commanded him to be brought into the barracks, and ordered him to be examined by scourging, to find out why they shouted thus against him.