Sometimes what we don't say is more powerful than what we do say.

Well, I know that's true.

Here's Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth.

When you're secure in who you are and in your calling, you don't have to talk so much.

I see this dignity in a few, not enough, but a few Christian women I know.

They don't have to defend what they do.

They don't have to say a lot, even sometimes with family members or friends who greatly misunderstand them.

They just live the life.

This is the Reviver Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamy, author of Choosing Forgiveness for March 15th, 2024. I'm Dana Gresh.

Nancy's continuing to focus on Jesus in a series called Incomparable.

We took a look yesterday at the trial of Jesus, the Jewish trial and the Roman trial.

And one of the things that stands out to me about that trial is how Jesus conducted himself with such incredible, calm, dignity, and restraint.

Especially when you contrast the behavior of his enemies, his opponents, who were so angry and

vitriolic and determined to be rid of him, to put him to death.

The contrast between the two is really stark.

Now, at Jesus' trial, I want to extend another session about the trial of Christ and just park on one aspect of it today.

And that is, his trial was notable for the few things that he did say, but even more so, I think, for what he did not say.

Repeatedly, and I don't think this is an incidental matter, the gospel accounts record that Jesus

was silent before his enemies. What Oswald Sanders in his book, the incomparable Christ, calls the majestic

silence of Christ. Let me read to you a few passages that will just show you how that's mentioned.

First of all, in Jesus' trial before the Jewish rulers, I'm reading here from Mark chapter 14,

says, now the chief priests and the whole council, that's a Sanhedron,

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