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Jesus answered him, "I have spoken openly to the world; I have always taught in synagogues and in the temple, where all Jews come together; I have said nothing secretly.
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Why do you ask me? Ask those who have heard me, what I said to them; they know what I said."
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When he had said this, one of the officers standing by struck Jesus with his hand, saying, "Is that how you answer the high priest?"
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Jesus answered him, "If I have spoken wrongly, bear witness to the wrong; but if I have spoken rightly, why do you strike me?"
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Annas then sent him bound to Ca'iaphas the high priest.
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Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. They said to him, "Are not you also one of his disciples?" He denied it and said, "I am not."
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One of the servants of the high priest, a kinsman of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, asked, "Did I not see you in the garden with him?"
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Peter again denied it; and at once the cock crowed.
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Then they led Jesus from the house of Ca'iaphas to the praetorium. It was early. They themselves did not enter the praetorium, so that they might not be defiled, but might eat the passover.
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So Pilate went out to them and said, "What accusation do you bring against this man?"
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They answered him, "If this man were not an evildoer, we would not have handed him over."