22. When Jesus said this, one of the guards standing there hit him. The guard said, “Is that the way you answer the high priest?”
23. Jesus answered him, “If I said something wrong, then say what was wrong. But if what I said is true, why do you hit me?”
24. Then Annas sent Jesus to Caiaphas, the high priest. Jesus was still tied.
25. Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. They said to him, “Aren’t you one of that man’s followers?”Peter denied it and said, “No, I am not.”
26. One of the servants of the high priest was there. This servant was a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off. The servant said, “Didn’t I see you with him in the garden?”
27. Again Peter said it wasn’t true. Just then a rooster crowed.
28. Then they led Jesus from Caiaphas’ house to the Roman governor’s palace. It was early in the morning. The Jews would not go inside the palace. They did not want to make themselves unclean, because they wanted to eat the Passover meal.
29. So Pilate went outside to them. He asked, “What charges do you bring against this man?”
30. They answered, “He is a criminal. That is why we brought him to you.”
31. Pilate said to them, “Take him yourselves and judge him by your own law.”They answered, “But we are not allowed to put anyone to death.”
32. (This happened so that what Jesus had said about how he would die would come true.)