He answered him to never a word.
Matthew 27:14
"He had never
been slow of speech when He could bless the sons of men, but He would
not say a single word for Himself. "Never man spake like this Man," and
never man was silent like Him.
Q: Did it show that He would not utter a word to stay the slaughter 
of His
sacred person, which He had dedicated as an offering for us?
Q: Had He so
entirely surrendered Himself that He would not interfere in His own
behalf, even in the minutest degree, but be bound and slain an
unstruggling, uncomplaining victim?
Q: Was this silence a type of the defenselessness of sin?
Q: Is not patient silence the best reply to a gainsaying world?
The best apologists for Christianity in the
early days were its martyrs.
The anvil breaks a host of hammers by
quietly bearing their blows. Did not the silent Lamb of God furnish us
with a grand example of wisdom?
A
long defense of Himself would have been contrary to Isaiah's prediction.
"He is led as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her
shearers is dumb, so He openeth not His mouth."
By His quiet He
conclusively proved Himself to be the true Lamb of God."
Charles Spurgeon
