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Day after day I used to be among you in the Temple teaching, and you never seized me. But this is happening in order that the Scriptures may be fulfilled.'
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Then His friends all forsook Him and fled.
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One youth indeed did follow Him, wearing only a linen cloth round his bare body. Of him they laid hold,
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but he left the linen cloth in their hands and fled without it.
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So they led Jesus away to the High Priest, and with him there assembled all the High Priests, Elders, and Scribes.
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Peter followed Jesus at a distance, as far as the outer court of the High Priest's palace. But there he remained sitting among the officers, and warming himself by the fire.
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Meanwhile the High Priests and the entire Sanhedrin were endeavouring to get evidence against Jesus in order to put Him to death, but could find none;
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for though many gave false testimony against Him, their statements did not tally.
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Then some came forward as witnesses and falsely declared,
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"We have heard him say, `I will pull down this Sanctuary built by human hands, and three days afterwards I will erect another built without hands.'"
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But not even in this shape was their testimony consistent.