22 After Jesus spoke, one of the guards standing there slapped Jesus in the face. "Is that how you would answer the high priest?" he asked.
23 Jesus replied, "If I speak wrongly, testify about what was wrong. But if I speak correctly, why do you strike me?"
24 Then Annas sent him, bound, to Caiaphas the high priest.
25 Meanwhile, Simon Peter was still standing with the guards, warming himself. They asked, "Aren’t you one of his disciples?" Peter denied it, saying, "I’m not."
26 A servant of the high priest, a relative of the one whose ear Peter had cut off, said to him, "Didn’t I see you in the garden with him?"
27 Peter denied it again, and immediately a rooster crowed.
28 The Jewish leaders led Jesus from Caiaphas to the Roman governor’s palace. It was early in the morning. So that they could eat the Passover, the Jewish leaders wouldn’t enter the palace; entering the palace would have made them ritually impure.