21. Why are you questioning me? Why don't you ask the people who heard me? They know what I have said.”
22. As soon as Jesus said this, one of the temple police hit him and said, “That's no way to talk to the high priest!”
23. Jesus answered, “If I have done something wrong, say so. But if not, why did you hit me?”
24. Jesus was still tied up, and Annas sent him to Caiaphas the high priest.
25. While Simon Peter was standing there warming himself, someone asked him, “Aren't you one of Jesus' followers?”Again Peter denied it and said, “No, I am not!”
26. One of the high priest's servants was there. He was a relative of the servant whose ear Peter had cut off, and he asked, “Didn't I see you in the garden with that man?”
27. Once more Peter denied it, and at once a cock crowed.
28. It was early in the morning when Jesus was taken from Caiaphas to the building where the Roman governor stayed. But the crowd waited outside. Any of them who had gone inside would have become unclean and would not be allowed to eat the Passover meal.
29. Pilate came out and asked, “What charges are you bringing against this man?”
30. They answered, “He is a criminal! That's why we brought him to you.”
31. Pilate told them, “Take him and judge him by your own laws.”The crowd replied, “We are not allowed to put anyone to death.”