Jesus’ Condemnation and Peter’s Denials

54  Then they arrested Jesus, led him away, and brought him into the high priest’s house. But Peter was following at a distance. 55  When they had made a fire in the middle of the courtyard and sat down together, Peter sat down among them. 56  Then a slave girl, seeing him as he sat in the firelight, stared at him and said, “This man was with him too!” 57  But Peter denied it: “Woman, I don’t know him!” 58  Then a little later someone else saw him and said, “You are one of them too.” But Peter said, “Man, I am not!” 59  And after about an hour still another insisted, “Certainly this man was with him, because he too is a Galilean.” 60  But Peter said, “Man, I don’t know what you’re talking about!” At that moment, while he was still speaking, a rooster crowed. 61  Then the Lord turned and looked straight at Peter, and Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said to him, “Before a rooster crows today, you will deny me three times.” 62  And he went outside and wept bitterly.

63  Now the men who were holding Jesus under guard began to mock him and beat him. 64  They blindfolded him and asked him repeatedly, “Prophesy! Who hit you?” 65  They also said many other things against him, reviling him.

66  When day came, the council of the elders of the people gathered together, both the chief priests and the experts in the law. Then they led Jesus away to their council 67  and said, “If you are the Christ, tell us.” But he said to them, “If I tell you, you will not believe, 68  and if I ask you, you will not answer. 69  But from now on the Son of Man will be seated at the right hand of the power of God.” 70  So they all said, “Are you the Son of God, then?” He answered them, “You say that I am.” 71  Then they said, “Why do we need further testimony? We have heard it ourselves from his own lips!”

23  Then the whole group of them rose up and brought Jesus before Pilate. 2  They began to accuse him, saying, “We found this man subverting our nation, forbidding us to pay the tribute tax to Caesar and claiming that he himself is Christ, a king.” 3  So Pilate asked Jesus, “Are you the king of the Jews?” He replied, “You say so.” 4  Then Pilate said to the chief priests and the crowds, “I find no basis for an accusation against this man.” 5  But they persisted in saying, “He incites the people by teaching throughout all Judea. It started in Galilee and ended up here!”