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Why askest thou me? Ask them who have heard what I have spoken unto them. Behold they know what things I have said.
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And when he had said these things, one of the servants standing by gave Jesus a blow, saying: Answerest thou the high priest so?
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Jesus answered him: If I have spoken evil, give testimony of the evil; but if well, why strikest thou me?
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And Annas sent him bound to Caiphas the high priest.
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And Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. They said therefore to him: Art not thou 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 to him whose ear Peter cut off) saith to him: Did not I see thee in the garden with him?
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Again therefore Peter denied: and immediately the cock crew.
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Then they led Jesus from Caiphas to the governor’s hall. And it was morning: and they went not into the hall, that they might not be defiled, but that they might eat the pasch.
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Pilate therefore went out to them, and said: What accusation bring you against this man?
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They answered and said to him: If he were not a malefactor, we would not have delivered him up to thee.
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Pilate therefore said to them: Take him you, and judge him according to your law. The Jews therefore said to him: It is not lawful for us to put any man to death.