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.