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When He had saidthis, one of the 1officersstandingnearby2struck*Jesus, saying, "Is that the way You answer the highpriest?"
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3Jesusanswered him, "If I have spokenwrongly, testify of the wrong; but ifrightly, why do you strike Me?"
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4SoAnnassent Him bound to 5Caiaphas the highpriest.
Peter's Denial of Jesus
256Now7SimonPeter was standing and warming himself. So they said to him, "8You are not also one of His disciples, are you?" He denied it, and said, "I am not."
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One of the slaves of the highpriest, being a relative of the one 9whoseearPetercutoff, said, "Did I not see you in 10the garden with Him?"
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Peterthendenied it again, and immediately11a roostercrowed.
Jesus before Pilate
2812Then they ledJesus from 13Caiaphas into 14the Praetorium, and it was early; and they themselves did not enter into 15the Praetoriumso that 16they would not be defiled, but might eat the Passover.
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17ThereforePilatewent out to them and said, "Whataccusation do you bring against thisMan?"
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They answered and said to him, "IfthisMan were not an evildoer, we would not have delivered Him to you."
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SoPilatesaid to them, "Take Him yourselves, and judge Him according to your law." The Jewssaid to him, "We are not permitted to putanyone to death,"
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to fulfill18the word of Jesuswhich He spoke, signifying by whatkind of death He was about to die.