It’s hard to be quiet when you are right. If you are like me, you want people to know how truly correct you are. It is a “I must prove my brilliance" situation.
Why is it like this? It's like this because we are all egotists. We like us. We don't want us to lose or look stupid. So we rant out wisdom without regard to the outcome; this is especially true with our spouse. It's generally not a positive when we come out on the winning side of that argument.
Matthew shared this quick look at a crucial “one-sided conversation, in 27:13 Then Pilate asked him, "Don't you hear the testimony they are bringing against you?" 14 But Jesus made no reply, not even to a single charge—to the great amazement of the governor.
In the above text, there is a no-response interrogation going on. The powerful ruler wants information from the innocent convict, but the convict isn't cooperating. There is nary a word spoken by the condemned. This lack of conversation raises the ire of the powerful leader to a fever pitch. He blurts out his feeble threat, "Don't you know that I have power to condemn or release you?" to which Pilate finally gets an answer.
While the religious leaders are spewing their supposed evidence of guilt, Jesus says nothing. Why? He was fulfilling something that Isaiah had said about him some 800 years earlier. We see it in Isaiah 53:7. He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; he was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before its shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth.
The Lamb of God was going to be slaughtered, and it had to be that way. Jesus said that if he had wanted to, he could have called mirid angels to rescue him. However, he remained silent. At times, silence is golden, and this was one of those times.
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