22. When he had said this, one of the temple guards standing there struck Jesus and said, “Is this the way you answer the high priest?”
23. Jesus answered him, “If I have spoken wrongly, testify to the wrong; but if I have spoken rightly, why do you strike me?”
24. Then Annas sent him bound to Caiaphas the high priest.
25. Now Simon Peter was standing there keeping warm. And they said to him, “You are not one of his disciples, are you?” He denied it and said, “I am not.”
26. One of the slaves of the high priest, a relative of the one whose ear Peter had cut off, said, “Didn’t I see you in the garden with him?”
27. Again Peter denied it. And immediately the cock crowed.
28. Then they brought Jesus from Caiaphas to the praetorium. It was morning. And they themselves did not enter the praetorium, in order not to be defiled so that they could eat the Passover.
29. So Pilate came out to them and said, “What charge do you bring [against] this man?”
30. They answered and said to him, “If he were not a criminal, we would not have handed him over to you.”
31. At this, Pilate said to them, “Take him yourselves, and judge him according to your law.” The Jews answered him, “We do not have the right to execute anyone,”
32. in order that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled that he said indicating the kind of death he would die.
33. So Pilate went back into the praetorium and summoned Jesus and said to him, “Are you the King of the Jews?”