21. “Why do you ask Me? Ask those who have heard Me what I said to them. See, they know what I said.”
22. And when He had said this, one of the officers who stood by slapped יהושע in the face, saying, “Do You answer the high priest this way?”
23. יהושע answered him, “If I have spoken evilly, bear witness of the evil, but if well, why do you strike Me?”
24. Then Ḥanan sent Him bound to the high priest, Qayapha.
25. And Shim‛on Kĕpha was standing and warming himself. Then they said to him, “Are you also one of His taught ones?” He denied it and said, “I am not!”
26. One of the servants of the high priest, a relative of the one whose ear Kĕpha cut off, said, “Did I not see you in the garden with Him?”
27. Then Kĕpha again denied it, and immediately a cock crowed.
28. Then they led יהושע from Qayapha to the palace, and it was early. And they themselves did not go into the palace, lest they should be defiled, but that they might eat the Passover.
29. Pilate, therefore, came out to them and said, “What accusation do you bring against this Man?”
30. They answered and said to him, “If He were not an evil-doer, we would not have delivered Him up to you.”
31. Then Pilate said to them, “You take Him and judge Him according to your law.” The Yehuḏim said to him, “It is not right for us to put anyone to death,”
32. in order that the word of יהושע might be filled which He spoke, signifying by what death He was about to die.