23"If I said something wrong," Jesus replied, "testify as to what is wrong. But if I spoke the truth, why did you strike me?" 24Then Annas sent him, still bound, to Caiaphas the high priest.[a]

 25As Simon Peter stood warming himself, he was asked, "You are not one of his disciples, are you?" 
      He denied it, saying, "I am not." 
 26One of the high priest's servants, a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, challenged him, "Didn't I see you with him in the olive grove?" 27Again Peter denied it, and at that moment a rooster began to crow.

 28Then the Jews led Jesus from Caiaphas to the palace of the Roman governor. By now it was early morning, and to avoid ceremonial uncleanness the Jews did not enter the palace; they wanted to be able to eat the Passover. 29So Pilate came out to them and asked, "What charges are you bringing against this man?" 
 30"If he were not a criminal," they replied, "we would not have handed him over to you." 

 31Pilate said, "Take him yourselves and judge him by your own law." 

   "But we have no right to execute anyone," the Jews objected. 32This happened so that the words Jesus had spoken indicating the kind of death he was going to die would be fulfilled. 

 33Pilate then went back inside the palace, summoned Jesus and asked him, "Are you the king of the Jews?" 

 34"Is that your own idea," Jesus asked, "or did others talk to you about me?" 

 35"Am I a Jew?" Pilate replied. "It was your people and your chief priests who handed you over to me. What is it you have done?"
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a. John 18:24 Or (Now Annas had sent him, still bound, to Caiaphas the high priest.)