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And he having said these things, one of the officers standing by did give Jesus a slap, saying, `Thus dost thou answer the chief priest?'
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Jesus answered him, `If I spake ill, testify concerning the ill; and if well, why me dost thou smite?'
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Annas then sent him bound to Caiaphas the chief priest.
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And Simon Peter was standing and warming himself, they said then to him, `Art thou also of his disciples?' he denied, and said, `I am not.'
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One of the servants of the chief priest, being kinsman of him whose ear Peter cut off, saith, `Did not I see thee in the garden with him?'
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again, therefore, Peter denied, and immediately a cock crew.
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They led, therefore, Jesus from Caiaphas to the praetorium, and it was early, and they themselves did not enter into the praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but that they might eat the passover;
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Pilate, therefore, went forth unto them, and said, `What accusation do ye bring against this man?'
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they answered and said to him, `If he were not an evil doer, we had not delivered him to thee.'
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Pilate, therefore, said to them, `Take ye him -- ye -- and according to your law judge him;' the Jews, therefore, said to him, `It is not lawful to us to put any one to death;'
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that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled which he said, signifying by what death he was about to die.