I charge you before God, who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate testified the good confession,
Who before Pilate witnessed the good confession ...  Some of the critical writers made a big to-do over what they call contradictions in the gospel records of the "confession" Jesus made, some recording it in one form, others in another.  It should be remembered that that was an "all night" trial.  The questioning went on for hours, during most of which Jesus remained silent.  Now and again he gave answer, but only when the question was so stated that his answer would be in full harmony with his divine will.  When the question propounded came in one form, he replied, "Thou sayest"; but when finally, presumably about daybreak, the high priest himself put the question in such a manner as to allow one of his great "I AM" answers, Jesus did not hesitate to answer it.  See  Mark 14:61,62.  See homily above on "The Good Confession."