47. But a certain one of the bystanders, drawing his sword, struck the slave of the high priest and cut off his ear.
48. And Jesus answered and said to them, “Have you come out with swords and clubs, as against a robber, to arrest me?
49. Every day I was with you in the temple courts teaching, and you did not arrest me! But this has happened in order that the scriptures would be fulfilled.
50. And they all abandoned him and fled.
51. And a certain young man was following him, clothed only in a linen cloth on his naked body. And they attempted to seize him,
52. but he left behind the linen cloth and fled naked.
53. And they led Jesus away to the high priest, and all the chief priests and the elders and the scribes came together.
54. And Peter followed him from a distance, right inside, into the courtyard of the high priest. And he was sitting with the officers and warming himself by the fire.
55. Now the chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were looking for testimony against Jesus in order to put him to death, and they did not find it.
56. For many gave false testimony against him, and their testimony was not consistent.
57. And some stood up and began to give false testimony against him, saying,
58. “We heard him saying, ‘I will destroy this temple made by hands, and within three days I will build another not made by hands.”
59. And their testimony was not even consistent about this.
60. And the high priest stood up in the midst of them and asked Jesus, saying, “Do you not reply anything? What are these people testifying against you?”
61. But he was silent and did not reply anything. Again the high priest asked him and said to him, “Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed One?”