11. So Jesus stood before the governor, and the governor asked him, saying, “Are you the king of the Jews?” And Jesus said, “You say so.”
12. And when he was being accused by the chief priests and elders he answered nothing.
13. Then Pilate said to him, “Do you not hear how many things they are testifying against you?”
14. And he did not reply to him, not even with reference to one statement, so that the governor was very astonished.
15. Now at each feast, the governor was accustomed to release one prisoner to the crowd—the one whom they wanted.
16. And at that time they had a notorious prisoner named Jesus Barabbas.