19. The kohen gadol then questioned Yeshua about His disciples and His teaching.
20. “I have spoken openly to the world,” Yeshua answered him. “I always taught in the synagogues and the Temple, where all the Jewish people come together. I spoke nothing in secret.
21. Why question Me? Ask those who have heard what I spoke to them. Look, they know what I said.”
22. When He had said this, one of the officers standing nearby gave Yeshua a slap, saying, “Is that the way you answer the kohen gadol ?”
23. Yeshua answered him, “If I have spoken wrongly, give evidence of the wrong; but if rightly, why hit Me?”
24. Then Annas sent Him, still tied up, to Caiaphas, the kohen gadol .
25. Now Simon Peter was standing outside and warming himself. So they said to him, “Aren’t you one of His disciples too?” He denied it and said, “No, I’m not!”
26. One of the servants of the kohen gadol , a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, said, “Didn’t I see you in the garden with Him?”
27. Again Peter denied it, and immediately a rooster crowed.
28. Then they led Yeshua from Caiaphas to the Praetorium. It was early. They themselves did not enter the Praetorium, so they would not become unclean but might eat the Passover.
29. Therefore Pilate came out to them and said, “What charge do you bring against this man?”
30. They answered, “If He weren’t an evildoer, we wouldn’t have handed Him over to you.”
31. Then Pilate said to them, “Take Him yourselves, and judge Him by your Torah!” The Judean leaders responded, “We are not authorized to put anyone to death.”
32. This happened so that the word Yeshua spoke would be fulfilled, signifying what kind of death He was about to die.
33. So Pilate went back into the Praetorium, called for Yeshua, and asked Him, “Are you the King of the Jews?”
34. “Are you saying this on your own,” Yeshua answered, “or did others tell you about Me?”
35. Pilate answered, “I’m not a Jew, am I? Your own nation and ruling kohanim handed You over to me! What have You done?”
36. Yeshua answered, “My kingdom is not of this world. If My kingdom were of this world, then My servants would be fighting so that I wouldn’t be handed over to the Judean leaders. But as it is, My kingdom is not from here.”