MATTHEW 27:14 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“And he answered him to never a word; insomuch that the governor marvelled greatly.”
But he gave him no answer, not even to a single charge, so that the governor was greatly amazed. The silence that produces the governor's amazement: Pilate has never encountered a prisoner who would not respond to accusations. The amazement communicates the supernatural character of the silence — it is not the silence of the guilty who cannot defend themselves but the silence of the one who chooses not to.
Church Fathers on Matthew 27:14
Matthew, having finished his digression concerning the traitor Judas, returns to the course of his narrative saying, 'Jesus stood before the governor.'
Mark how He that is ordained by His Father to be the Judge of the whole creation, humbled Himself, and was content to stand before the judge of the land of Judaea, and to be asked by Pilate either in mockery or doubt, 'Art thou the King of the Jews?'
Pilate asked Christ that which His enemies were continually casting in His teeth, for because they knew that Pilate cared not for matters of their Law, they had recourse to a public charge.
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