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Why do you ask me? Ask those who have heard me what I said to them. Behold, these know the things which I said."
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When he had said this, one of the officers standing by slapped Yeshua with his hand, saying, "Do you answer the Kohen Gadol like that?"
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Yeshua answered him, "If I have spoken evil, testify of the evil; but if well, why do you beat me?"
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Anan sent him bound to Kayafa, the Kohen Gadol.
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Now Shim`on Kefa was standing and warming himself. They said therefore to him, "You aren't also one of his talmidim, are you?" He denied it, and said, "I am not."
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One of the servants of the Kohen Gadol, being a relative of him whose ear Kefa cut off, said, "Didn't I see you in the garden with him?"
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Kefa therefore denied again, and immediately the rooster crowed.
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They led Yeshua therefore from Kayafa into the Praetorium. It was early, and they themselves didn't enter into the Praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but might eat the Pesach.
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Pilate therefore went out to them, and said, "What accusation do you bring against this man?"
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They answered him, "If this man weren't an evildoer, we wouldn't have delivered him up to you."
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Pilate therefore said to them, "Take him yourselves, and judge him according to your law." Therefore the Yehudim said to him, "It is not lawful for us to put anyone to death,"