22. When Jesus said this, one of the guards standing there hit him. The guard said, “You should not talk to the high priest like that!”
23. Jesus answered, “If I said something wrong, tell everyone here what was wrong. But if what I said is right, then why do you hit me?”
24. So Annas sent Jesus to Caiaphas the high priest. He was still tied.
25. Simon Peter was standing at the fire, keeping himself warm. The other people said to Peter, “Aren’t you one of the followers of that man?” Peter denied it. He said, “No, I am not.”
26. One of the servants of the high priest was there. He was a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off. The servant said, “I think I saw you with him in the garden!”
27. But again Peter said, “No, I was not with him!” As soon as he said this, a rooster crowed.
28. Then the guards took Jesus from Caiaphas’ house to the Roman governor’s palace. It was early in the morning. The Jews there would not go inside the palace. They did not want to make themselves unclean, because they wanted to eat the Passover meal.
29. So Pilate went outside to them and asked, “What do you say this man has done wrong?”