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.)
33. Then Pilate went back inside the palace. He called Jesus to him and asked, “Are you the king of the Jews?”
34. Jesus said, “Is that your own question, or did others tell you about me?”
35. Pilate answered, “I am not a Jew. It was your own people and their leading priests who brought you before me. What have you done wrong?”
36. Jesus said, “My kingdom does not belong to this world. If it belonged to this world, my servants would have fought to keep me from being given over to the Jewish leaders. But my kingdom is from another place.”