John 18:19–27

¹⁹The high priest therefore asked Jesus about his disciples and about his teaching.↗

²⁰Jesus answered him,“I spoke openly to the world. I always taught in synagogues and in the temple, where the Jews always meet. I said nothing in secret.↗

²¹Why do you ask me? Ask those who have heard me what I said to them. Behold, they know the things which I said.”↗

²²When he had said this, one of the officers standing by slapped Jesus with his hand, saying, “Do you answer the high priest like that?”↗

²³Jesus answered him,“If I have spoken evil, testify of the evil; but if well, why do you beat me?”↗

²⁴Annas sent him bound to Caiaphas, the high priest.↗

²⁵Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. They said therefore to him, “You aren’t also one of his disciples, are you?” He denied it and said, “I am not.”↗

²⁶One of the servants of the high priest, being a relative of him whose ear Peter had cut off, said, “Didn’t I see you in the garden with him?”↗

²⁷Peter therefore denied it again, and immediately the rooster crowed.↗