21. Why do you ask me? Ask those who have heard me what I said to them; they know what I said.”
22. When he had said these things, one of the officers standing by struck Jesus with his hand, saying, “Is that how you answer the high priest?”
23. Jesus answered him, “If what I said is wrong, bear witness about the wrong; but if what I said is right, why do you strike me?”
24. Annas then sent him bound to Caiaphas the high priest.
25. Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. So they said to him, “You also are not one of his disciples, are you?” He denied it and said, “I am not.”
26. One of the servants of the high priest, a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, asked, “Did I not see you in the garden with him?”
27. Peter again denied it, and at once a rooster crowed.
28. Then they led Jesus from the house of Caiaphas to the governor’s headquarters. It was early morning. They themselves did not enter the governor’s headquarters, so that they would not be defiled, but could eat the Passover.
29. So Pilate went outside to them and said, “What accusation do you bring against this man?”
30. They answered him, “If this man were not doing evil, we would not have delivered him over to you.”