Then said Pilate unto him, Hearest thou not how many things they witness against thee?
Ver. 13. Hearest thou not, &c.] Yes, well enough; but there is a time when a man should be as a "deaf man that heareth not, and as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth," Psalms 38:13. Ego aurium Dominus, ut tu linguae, said he in Tacitus to his obstreperous adversary. If I cannot command thy tongue, yet I can command mine own ears. And the "prudent will keep silence in an evil time," saith Amos, Amos 5:13. See Trapp on " Mat 26:62 " Patience and silence were Isaac's apology to Ishmael. Sile, et funestam dedisti plagam, saith Chrysostom.