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Yeshua answered, "I have spoken quite openly to everyone; I have always taught in a synagogue or in the Temple where all Jews meet together, and I have said nothing in secret;
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so why are you questioning me? Question the ones who heard what I said to them; look, they know what I said."
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At these words, one of the guards standing by slapped Yeshua in the face and said, "This is how you talk to the cohen hagadol?"
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Yeshua answered him, "If I said something wrong, state publicly what was wrong; but if I was right, why are you hitting me?"
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So `Anan sent him, still tied up, to Kayafa the cohen hagadol.
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Meanwhile, Shim`on Kefa was standing and warming himself. They said to him, "Aren't you also one of his talmidim?" He denied it, saying, "No, I am not."
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One of the slaves of the cohen hagadol, a relative of the man whose ear Kefa had cut off, said, "Didn't I see you with him in the grove of trees?"
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So again Kefa denied it, and instantly a rooster crowed.
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They led Yeshua from Kayafa to the governor's headquarters. By now it was early morning. They did not enter the headquarters building because they didn't want to become ritually defiled and thus unable to eat the Pesach meal.
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So Pilate went outside to them and said, "What charge are you bringing against this man?"
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They answered, "If he hadn't done something wrong, we wouldn't have brought him to you."