16. But Peter was left standing outside by the door. So the other disciple, who was known to the kohen gadol , went out and spoke to the doorkeeper and brought Peter in.
17. The maidservant at the door says to Peter, “Aren’t you one of this Man’s disciples too?” He says, “No, I’m not.”
18. The servants and officers were standing around a fire they had made, because it was cold and they were warming themselves. And Peter was also with them, standing and warming himself.
19. The kohen gadol then questioned Yeshua about His disciples and His teaching.
20. “I have spoken openly to the world,” Yeshua answered him. “I always taught in the synagogues and the Temple, where all the Jewish people come together. I spoke nothing in secret.
21. Why question Me? Ask those who have heard what I spoke to them. Look, they know what I said.”
22. When He had said this, one of the officers standing nearby gave Yeshua a slap, saying, “Is that the way you answer the kohen gadol ?”
23. Yeshua answered him, “If I have spoken wrongly, give evidence of the wrong; but if rightly, why hit Me?”
24. Then Annas sent Him, still tied up, to Caiaphas, the kohen gadol .
25. Now Simon Peter was standing outside and warming himself. So they said to him, “Aren’t you one of His disciples too?” He denied it and said, “No, I’m not!”
26. One of the servants of the kohen gadol , a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, said, “Didn’t I see you in the garden with Him?”