“And Pilate asked him again, saying, Answerest thou nothing? behold how many things they witness against thee.”
So again Pilate asked him, aren't you going to answer? See how many things they are accusing you of — Pilate's amazement at the silence begins here and will be noted again in verse 5. The amazement is the response of a Roman official to a prisoner who does not mount a self-defense when self-defense could save his life. The silence is not resignation but the fulfillment of the Servant's silence (Isaiah 53:7).
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