John 18:19-27


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. 

Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. Then they said to him: ‘You too are 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. 

Be thou my vision, O Lord of my heart;
Naught be all else to me, save that thou art –
Thou my best thought, by day or by night;
Waking or sleeping, thy presence my light.

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