Then ¹  the disciples came to him and said, “Why do you speak to them in parables?”

His disciples said, “Look, now you are speaking plainly ¹  and not in obscure figures of speech! ² 

So Pilate said, ¹  “Do you refuse to speak to me? Don’t you know I have the authority ²  to release you, and to crucify you?” ³ 

Now at that very moment his disciples came back. ¹  They were shocked ²  because he was speaking ³  with a woman. However, no one said, “What do you want?” ⁴  or “Why are you speaking with her?”