15. Simon Peter and another disciple followed Jesus. That other disciple was well known to the High Priest, so he went with Jesus into the courtyard of the High Priest's house,
16. while Peter stayed outside by the gate. Then the other disciple went back out, spoke to the girl at the gate, and brought Peter inside.
17. The girl at the gate said to Peter, “Aren't you also one of the disciples of that man?”“No, I am not,” answered Peter.
18. It was cold, so the servants and guards had built a charcoal fire and were standing round it, warming themselves. So Peter went over and stood with them, warming himself.
19. The High Priest questioned Jesus about his disciples and about his teaching.
20. Jesus answered, “I have always spoken publicly to everyone; all my teaching was done in the synagogues and in the Temple, where all the people come together. I have never said anything in secret.
21. Why, then, do you question me? Question the people who heard me. Ask them what I told them — they know what I said.”
22. When Jesus said this, one of the guards there slapped him and said, “How dare you talk like that to the High Priest!”
23. Jesus answered him, “If I have said anything wrong, tell everyone here what it was. But if I am right in what I have said, why do you hit me?”
24. Then Annas sent him, still bound, to Caiaphas the High Priest.
25. Peter was still standing there keeping himself warm. So the others said to him, “Aren't you also one of the disciples of that man?”But Peter denied it. “No, I am not,” he said.
26. One of the High Priest's slaves, a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, spoke up. “Didn't I see you with him in the garden?” he asked.
27. Again Peter said “No” — and at once a cock crowed.
28. Early in the morning Jesus was taken from Caiaphas' house to the governor's palace. The Jewish authorities did not go inside the palace, for they wanted to keep themselves ritually clean, in order to be able to eat the Passover meal.
29. So Pilate went outside to them and asked, “What do you accuse this man of?”
30. Their answer was, “We would not have brought him to you if he had not committed a crime.”
31. Pilate said to them, “Then you yourselves take him and try him according to your own law.”They replied, “We are not allowed to put anyone to death.”
32. (This happened in order to make the words of Jesus come true, the words he used when he indicated the kind of death he would die.)
33. Pilate went back into the palace and called Jesus. “Are you the King of the Jews?” he asked him.
34. Jesus answered, “Does this question come from you or have others told you about me?”
35. Pilate replied, “Do you think I am a Jew? It was your own people and the chief priests who handed you over to me. What have you done?”