Luke 22:54–71

Peter Denies His Lord

⁵⁴They seized Him, led Him away, and brought Him into the high priest’s house. Meanwhile Peter ^bwas following at a distance. ⁵⁵They ^clit a fire in the middle of the courtyard ^dand sat down together, and Peter sat among them. ⁵⁶When a servant saw him sitting in the firelight, and looked closely at him, she said, “This man was with Him too.”

⁵⁷But he denied it: “Woman, I don’t know Him!”

⁵⁸After a little while, someone else saw him and said, “You’re one of them too!”

“Man, I am not!” Peter said.

⁵⁹About an hour later, another kept insisting, “This man was certainly with Him, since he’s also a Galilean.”

⁶⁰But Peter said, “Man, I don’t know what you’re talking about!” Immediately, while he was still speaking, a rooster crowed. ⁶¹Then the Lord turned and looked at Peter. ^eSo Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how He had said to him, “Before the rooster crows today, you will deny Me three times.” ^f62And he went outside and wept bitterly.

Jesus Mocked and Beaten

⁶³The men who were holding Jesus started mocking and beating Him. ^g64After blindfolding Him, they kept ^hasking, “Prophesy! Who hit You?” ⁶⁵And they were saying many other blasphemous ⁱthings against Him.

Jesus Faces the Sanhedrin

⁶⁶When daylight came, ^jthe elders ^kof the people, both the chief priests and the scribes, ^lconvened and brought Him before their Sanhedrin. ^m67They said, ⁿ“If You are the Messiah, tell us.”

But He said to them, “If I do tell you, you will not believe. ⁶⁸And if I ask you, you will not answer. ⁶⁹But from now on, the Son of Man will be seated at the right hand of the Power of God.” ^o

⁷⁰They all asked, “Are You, then, the Son of God?” ^p

And He said to them, “You say that I am.” ^q

⁷¹“Why do we need any more testimony,” they said, “since we’ve heard it ourselves from His mouth?”