18. And the servants and officers who had made a fire of coals stood there, because it was cold, and they warmed themselves. And Kĕpha was standing with them and warming himself.
19. Then the high priest asked יהושע about His taught ones and His teaching.
20. יהושע answered him, “I spoke openly to the world. I always taught in the congregation and in the Set-apart Place, where the Yehuḏim always meet, and I spoke no word in secret.
21. “Why do you ask Me? Ask those who have heard Me what I said to them. See, they know what I said.”
22. And when He had said this, one of the officers who stood by slapped יהושע in the face, saying, “Do You answer the high priest this way?”
23. יהושע answered him, “If I have spoken evilly, bear witness of the evil, but if well, why do you strike Me?”
24. Then Ḥanan sent Him bound to the high priest, Qayapha.
25. And Shim‛on Kĕpha was standing and warming himself. Then they said to him, “Are you also one of His taught ones?” He denied it and said, “I am not!”
26. One of the servants of the high priest, a relative of the one whose ear Kĕpha cut off, said, “Did I not see you in the garden with Him?”
27. Then Kĕpha again denied it, and immediately a cock crowed.
28. Then they led יהושע from Qayapha to the palace, and it was early. And they themselves did not go into the palace, lest they should be defiled, but that they might eat the Passover.
29. Pilate, therefore, came out to them and said, “What accusation do you bring against this Man?”