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As Pilate, trembling with fearful emotion, sat down by the side of Jesus, he inquired:

As Pilate, trembling with fearful emotion, sat down by the side of Jesus, he inquired:

*"Where do you come from? Really, who are you? What is this they say, that you are the Son of God?"

*"'''Where do you come from? Really, who are you'''? What is this they say, that you are the Son of God?"

Jesus looked Pilate straight in the face, but he did not answer him.  

Jesus looked Pilate straight in the face, but he did not answer him.  

Then said Jesus:  

Then said Jesus:  

*"You could have no power over me except it were permitted from above. You could exercise no authority over the Son of Man unless the Father in heaven allowed it. But you are not so guilty since you are ignorant of the gospel. He who betrayed me, and he who delivered me to you, they have the greater sin."

*"You could have no '''power''' over me except it were permitted from above. You could exercise no '''authority''' over the Son of Man unless the Father in heaven allowed it. But you are not so guilty since you are ignorant of the gospel. He who betrayed me, and he who delivered me to you, they have the greater sin."

This last talk with Jesus thoroughly frightened Pilate. This moral coward and judicial weakling now labored under the double weight of the superstitious fear of Jesus and mortal dread of the Jewish leaders.  

This last talk with Jesus thoroughly frightened Pilate. This moral coward and judicial weakling now labored under the double weight of the superstitious fear of Jesus and mortal dread of the Jewish leaders.