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So why do you question me? Ask the people who heard my teaching. They know what I said."
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When Jesus said this, one of the guards standing there hit him. The guard said, "Is that the way you answer the high priest?"
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Jesus answered him, "If I said something wrong, then show what it was. But if what I said is true, why do you hit me?"
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Then Annas sent Jesus, who was still tied, to Caiaphas the high priest.
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As Simon Peter was standing and warming himself, they said to him, "Aren't you one of that man's followers?" Peter said it was not true; he said, "No, I am not."
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One of the servants of the high priest was there. This servant was a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off. The servant said, "Didn't I see you with him in the garden?"
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Again Peter said it wasn't true. At once a rooster crowed.
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Early in the morning they led Jesus from Caiaphas's house to the Roman governor's palace. They would not go inside the palace, because they did not want to make themselves unclean; they wanted to eat the Passover meal.
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So Pilate went outside to them and asked, "What charges do you bring against this man?"
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They answered, "If he were not a criminal, we wouldn't have brought him to you."
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Pilate said to them, "Take him yourselves and judge him by your own law." "But we are not allowed to put anyone to death," the Jews answered.