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⁵⁴ The men caught Jesus and took him away to the high priest's house. Peter followed them far behind.

⁵⁵ They made a fire in the yard and sat around it. Peter sat down with them.

⁵⁶ A woman saw Peter sitting by the fire. She looked at him and said, `This man was with him also.'

⁵⁷ But Peter said, `Woman, I do not know him.'

⁵⁸ After a while, another person saw him and said, `You are one of them also.' But Peter said, `Man, I am not.'

⁵⁹ About an hour later another person said, `Surely this man was with him. He comes from Galilee.'

⁶⁰ Peter said, `Man, I do not know what you are talking about.' And right then, while he was talking, the cock called.

⁶¹ The Lord turned and looked at Peter. Then Peter remembered that the Lord had said to him, `Before the cock calls in the morning, you will say three times that you do not know me.'

⁶² Peter went out and cried very much.

⁶³ The men who guarded Jesus made fun of him and beat him.

⁶⁴ They tied something over his eyes. Then they hit him in the face and said, `Tell us if you know who hit you!'

⁶⁵ And they said many other wrong things to him.

⁶⁶ In the morning the leaders of the people, the chief priests and scribes met together. They took Jesus to their court.

⁶⁷ They said, `If you are the Christ, tell us.' Jesus said, `If I tell you, you will not believe.

⁶⁸ And if I ask you anything, you will not answer.

⁶⁹ From this time on the Son of Man will sit beside God who has all power.'

⁷⁰ They all said, `Then are you the Son of God?" He said, `Yes, I am.'

⁷¹ They said, `We do not need any more proof against him. We ourselves have heard what he said.'

23 Then all the people got up and took Jesus to Pilate.

² They began to make a complaint against him. They said, `This man is leading our people to do wrong. He says we should not pay taxes to Caesar. He says that he is Christ, a King.'

³ Then Pilate asked Jesus, `Are you the King of the Jews?" Jesus answered, `Yes, I am.'

⁴ Pilate said to the chief priests and to the people, `I find nothing wrong in this man.'

⁵ But they said all the more, `He troubles the people by his teaching. He has been teaching people in all the country of Judea. He began in Galilee and has come as far as this city.'

⁶ When Pilate heard this, he asked, `Is this man from Galilee?'

⁷ When he knew that he came from Herod's country, he sent him to Herod. Herod was in Jerusalem at that time.

⁸ He was glad to see Jesus. He had heard about him. And he had wanted to see him for a long time. He was hoping that he would see Jesus do a big work.

⁹ He asked Jesus many questions. But Jesus did not answer him.

¹⁰ The chief priests and the scribes stood near. They brought strong complaints against him.

¹¹ Then Herod and his soldiers laughed at Jesus and made fun of him. He dressed him up in very fine clothes and sent him back to Pilate.

¹² Herod and Pilate became friends that day. Before that, they had hated each other.