So the High Priest questioned Jesus about his disciples and about his teaching.
Jesus replied to him: ‘I have spoken to the world, openly. I have always taught in synagogue and in the temple, where all the Jews come together, and I have said nothing in secret. Why do you question me? Question those who have heard what I said to them. Certainly they know what I said.’
Jesus having said this, one of the officials standing by struck Jesus, saying ‘Is this how you answer the High Priest?’
Jesus replied to him:
‘If I have spoken wrongly, give witness to the wrong.
If I spoke correctly, why strike me?’
Then Annas sent him, still bound, to Caiaphas the High Priest.
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Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. Then they said to him: ‘You too are one of his disciples, aren’t you?’ He denied it: ‘I am not.’ One of the slaves of the High Priest, a relative of the one whose ear Peter had cut off, said: ‘Didn’t I see you in the garden with him?’ Again Peter denied it, and immediately the cock crowed.
Lord, you have given me so much,
I ask for one more thing –
a grateful heart.
George Herbert