Please Be Seated

Jesus Before Caiaphas and the Council

⁵⁷pThen qthose who had seized Jesus led him to rCaiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders had gathered. ⁵⁸And sPeter was following him at a distance, as far as rthe courtyard of the high priest, and going inside he sat with tthe guards to see the end. ⁵⁹Now the chief priests and the whole council8 uwere seeking false testimony against Jesus that they might put him to death, ⁶⁰but they found none, vthough many false witnesses came forward. At last wtwo came forward ⁶¹and said, “This man said, x‘I am able to ydestroy the temple of God, and to rebuild it in three days.’” ⁶²And the high priest stood up and said, “Have you no answer to make? What is it that these men testify against you?”9 ⁶³zBut Jesus remained silent. aAnd the high priest said to him, b“I adjure you by cthe living God, dtell us if you are ethe Christ, fthe Son of God.” ⁶⁴Jesus said to him, g“You have said so. But I tell you, from now on hyou will see the Son of Man iseated at the right hand of Power and hcoming on the clouds of heaven.” ⁶⁵Then the high priest jtore his robes and said, k“He has uttered blasphemy. What further witnesses do we need? You have now heard his blasphemy. ⁶⁶What is your judgment?” They answered, l“He deserves death.” ⁶⁷Then mthey spit in his face nand ostruck him. And some slapped him, ⁶⁸saying, “Prophesy to us, you pChrist! Who is it that struck you?”

Peter Denies Jesus

⁶⁹qNow Peter was sitting outside rin the courtyard. And a servant girl came up to him and said, “You also were with Jesus the Galilean.” ⁷⁰But he denied it before them all, saying, “I do not know what you mean.”