21. Why are you asking me? Ask those who heard what I have said to them! Behold, these people know what I said.”
22. Now when he had said these things, one of the officers who was standing by gave a slap in the face to Jesus, saying, “Do you reply to the high priest in this way?”
23. Jesus replied to him, “If I have spoken wrongly, testify about what is wrong! But if I have spoken correctly, why do you strike me?”
24. Then Annas sent him, tied up, to Caiaphas the high priest.
25. Now Simon Peter was standing there and warming himself. So they said to him, “You are not also one of his disciples, are you?” He denied it and said, “I am not!”
26. One of the slaves of the high priest, who was related to the one whose ear Peter had cut off, said, “Did I not see you in the garden with him?”
27. So Peter denied it again, and immediately a rooster crowed.
28. Then they brought Jesus from Caiaphas to the governor’s residence. Now it was early, and they did not enter into the governor’s residence so that they would not be defiled, but could eat the Passover.
29. So Pilate came outside to them and said, “What accusation do you bring against this man?”
30. They answered and said to him, “If this man were not doing evil, we would not have handed him over to you!”
31. So Pilate said to them, “You take him and judge him according to your law!” The Jews said to him, “It is not permitted for us to kill anyone,”
32. in order that the word of Jesus would be fulfilled that he had spoken, indicating by what sort of death he was going to die.
33. Then Pilate entered again into the governor’s residence and summoned Jesus and said to him, “Are you the king of the Jews?”