»Do you not hear,« asked Pilate, »what a mass of evidence they are bringing against you?«
Then the High Priest stood up and asked Him, »Have you no answer to make? What is it these men are saying in evidence against you?«
When however the High Priests and the Elders kept bringing their charges against Him, He said not a word in reply.
But He made no reply to a single accusation, so that the Governor was greatly astonished.
»Am I a Jew?« exclaimed Pilate; »it is your own nation and the High Priests who have handed you over to me. What have you done?«
the Tribune ordered him to be brought into the barracks, and be examined by flogging, in order to ascertain the reason why they thus cried out against him.