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This led the girl, the portress, to ask Peter, "Are you also one of this man's disciples?" "No, I am not," he replied.
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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.
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So the High Priest questioned Jesus about His disciples and His teaching.
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"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.
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Why do you question me? Question those who heard what it was I said to them: these witnesses here know what I said."
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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?"
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"If I have spoken wrongly," replied Jesus, "bear witness to it as wrong; but if rightly, why that blow?"
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So Annas sent Him bound to Caiaphas the High Priest.
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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."
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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?"
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Once more Peter denied it, and immediately a cock crowed.