John 18:19–27

Jesus before Annas

¹⁹The high priest ^aquestioned Jesus about His disciples and about His teaching.

²⁰“I have spoken openly to the world,” Jesus answered him. “I have always taught in the ^•synagogue ^band in the ^•temple complex, ^cwhere all the Jews congregate, and I haven’t spoken anything in secret. ²¹Why do you question Me? Question those who heard what I told them. Look, they know what I said.”

²²When He had said these things, one of the temple police standing by slapped Jesus, saying, “Is this the way you answer the high priest?”

²³“If I have spoken wrongly,” Jesus answered him, “give evidence ^dabout the wrong; but if rightly, ^ewhy do you hit Me?”

²⁴Then ^fAnnas ^gsent Him bound to Caiaphas the high priest.

Peter Denies Jesus Twice More

²⁵Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. They said to him, “You aren’t one of His disciples too, are you?”

He denied it and said, “I am not!”

²⁶One of the high priest’s slaves, a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, said, “Didn’t I see you with Him in the garden?”

²⁷Peter then denied it again. Immediately a rooster crowed. ^h