12 Bible Verses about Christ Being Silent

He will not wrangle or make an outcry, And no one will hear his voice in the streets;

This was the passage of Scripture that he was reading: "Like a sheep he was led away to be slaughtered, And just as a lamb is dumb before its shearer, He does not open his mouth.

But he would not answer her a word. And his disciples came up and urged him, saying, "Send her away, for she keeps screaming after us."

But Jesus was silent. And the high priest said to him, "I charge you, on your oath, by the living God, tell us whether you are the Christ, the son of God."

And while the high priests and elders were making their charges against him, he made no answer.

And he made him no reply to even a single accusation, so that the governor was greatly surprised.

But Jesus was silent and made no answer. The high priest again questioned him and said to him, "Are you the Christ, the son of the Blessed One?"

But Jesus made no further answer at all, so that Pilate wondered.

And he questioned him at some length, but he made him no answer.

and he went back into the governor's house and said to Jesus, "Where do you come from?" But Jesus made no answer.

I shall not talk much more with you, for the evil genius of the world is coming. He has nothing in common with me,

Then Pilate said to him, "Do you refuse to speak to me? Do you not know that it is in my power to release you or to have you crucified?"