"Then Pilate said to Him, 'Do You not hear how many things they testify against You?' And He did not answer him with regard to even a single charge, so the governor was quite amazed." (Matthew 27:13-14)

It has always bothered me to read these verses, seeing that Jesus didn't stand up for Himself against the lies that were being told about Him.  Just now, reading this passage for probably the 200th time, it hit me that it would have been pointless to do so.  Jesus was in the process of taking on the sins of man...paying the debt they owed to the Father.  He was going through punishment, heading toward a bloody cross,  taking the full weight of God's wrath against millions of sins He never committed. 

Jesus was innocent, yet went to the cross for my sins...and yours, if you're His. He was counted as guilty for my sins so that I could be counted as righteous in Him.

Now it makes sense to me why He didn't deny the charges.  He was doing the perfect will of the Father and was perfectly willing to do so.