018:017 This led the girl, the portress, to ask Peter, "Are you also
one of this man's disciples?" "No, I am not," he replied.
018:018 Now because it was cold the servants and the police had lighted
a charcoal fire, and were standing and warming themselves;
and Peter too remained with them, standing and warming himself.
018:019 So the High Priest questioned Jesus about His disciples
and His teaching.
018:020 "As for me," replied Jesus, "I have spoken openly to the world.
I have continually taught in some synagogue or in the Temple
where all the Jews are wont to assemble, and I have said
nothing in secret.
018:021 Why do you question me? Question those who heard what it was I
said to them: these witnesses here know what I said."
018:022 Upon His saying this, one of the officers standing by struck Him
with his open hand, asking Him as he did so, "Is that the way
you answer the High Priest?"
018:023 "If I have spoken wrongly," replied Jesus, "bear witness to it
as wrong; but if rightly, why that blow?"
018:024 So Annas sent Him bound to Caiaphas the High Priest.
018:025 But Simon Peter remained standing and warming himself, and this
led to their asking him, "Are you also one of his disciples?"
He denied it, and said, "No, I am not."
018:026 One of the High Priest's servants, a relative of the man
whose ear Peter had cut off, said, "Did I not see you
in the garden with him?"
018:027 Once more Peter denied it, and immediately a cock crowed.
018:028 So they brought Jesus from Caiaphas's house to the Praetorium.
It was the early morning, and they would not enter the Praetorium
themselves for fear of defilement, and in order that they
might be able to eat the Passover.