⁴⁹When those who were standing around him saw what was happening, they said, “Lord, should we strike them with our swords?” ⁵⁰And one of them struck the servant of the high priest and cut off his right ear.

⁵¹Jesus said, “Stop! No more of this.” Then he touched the servant’s ear and healed him.

⁵²Those who came to arrest Jesus were the leading priests, the soldiers who guarded the Temple, and the elders. Jesus said to them, “You came out here with swords and clubs as though I were a criminal. ⁵³I was with you every day in the Temple, and you didn’t arrest me there. But this is your time—the time when darkness rules.”

Peter Says He Doesn’t Know Jesus

⁵⁴They arrested Jesus, and led him away, and brought him into the house of the high priest. Peter followed far behind them. ⁵⁵After the soldiers started a fire in the middle of the courtyard and sat together, Peter sat with them. ⁵⁶A servant girl saw Peter sitting there in the firelight, and looking closely at him, she said, “This man was also with him.”

⁵⁷But Peter said this was not true; he said, “Woman, I don’t know him.”

⁵⁸A short time later, another person saw Peter and said, “You are also one of them.”

But Peter said, “Man, I am not!”

⁵⁹About an hour later, another man insisted, “Certainly this man was with him, because he is from Galilee, too.”

⁶⁰But Peter said, “Man, I don’t know what you are talking about!”

At once, while Peter was still speaking, a rooster crowed. ⁶¹Then the Lord turned and looked straight at Peter. And Peter remembered what the Lord had said: “Before the rooster crows this day, you will say three times that you don’t know me.” ⁶²Then Peter went outside and cried painfully.

The People Make Fun of Jesus

⁶³The men who were guarding Jesus began making fun of him and beating him.

⁶⁴They blindfolded him and said, “Prove that you are a prophet, and tell us who hit you.” ⁶⁵They said many cruel things to Jesus.

Jesus Before the Leaders

⁶⁶When day came, the council of the elders of the people, both the leading priests and the teachers of the law, came together and led Jesus to their highest court. ⁶⁷They said, “If you are the Christ, tell us.”

Jesus said to them, “If I tell you, you will not believe me. ⁶⁸And if I ask you, you will not answer. ⁶⁹But from now on, the Son of Man will sit at the right hand of the powerful God.”

⁷⁰They all said, “Then are you the Son of God?”

Jesus said to them, “You say that I am.”

⁷¹They said, “Why do we need witnesses now? We ourselves heard him say this.”

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