Speakest thou not unto me? — The position of the pronoun in the original is strongly emphatic — “To me dost Thou not speak?” Pilate is true to the vacillating character which now as man trembles before One who may be a Being from the other world, and now as Roman governor expects that Being to tremble before him.
Knowest thou not that I have power to crucify thee, and have power to release thee? — The text of the better MSS. inverts the order, reading,.... have power to release Thee, and have power to crucify Thee. This is the more natural order of thought — “Thy life is in my power; yea, and Thy death also.”