19. Then the high priest questioned Jesus about His disciples and about His teaching.
20. Jesus answered him, I have spoken openly to the world. I have always taught in a synagogue and in the temple [area], where the Jews [habitually] congregate (assemble); and I have spoken nothing secretly.
21. Why do you ask Me? Ask those who have heard [Me] what I said to them. See! They know what I said.
22. But when He said this, one of the attendants who stood by struck Jesus, saying, Is that how You answer the high priest?
23. Jesus replied, If I have said anything wrong [if I have spoken abusively, if there was evil in what I said] tell what was wrong with it. But if I spoke rightly and properly, why do you strike Me?
24. Then Annas sent Him bound to Caiaphas the high priest.
25. But Simon Peter [still] was standing and was warming himself. They said to him, You are not also one of His disciples, are you? He denied it and said, I am not!
26. One of the high priest's servants, a relative of the man whose ear Peter cut off, said, Did I not see you in the garden with Him?
27. And again Peter denied it. And immediately a rooster crowed.