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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."
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Pilate said to them, "You take him and judge him according to your own law." The Judeans replied, "We don't have the legal power to put anyone to death."
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This was so that what Yeshua had said, about how he was going to die, might be fulfilled.
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So Pilate went back into the headquarters, called Yeshua and said to him, "Are you the king of the Jews?"
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Yeshua answered, "Are you asking this on your own, or have other people told you about me?"