Luke 22:54-71

New American Standard Bible

Jesus’ Arrest

⁵⁴^(A)Now they arrested Him and led Him away, and brought Him to the house of the high priest; but ^(B)Peter was following at a distance. ⁵⁵^(C)After they kindled a fire in the middle of ^(D)the courtyard and sat down together, Peter was sitting among them. ⁵⁶And a slave woman, seeing him as he sat in the firelight, and staring at him, said, “This man was with Him as well.” ⁵⁷But he denied it, saying, “I do not know Him, woman!” ⁵⁸And a little later, ^(E)another person saw him and said, “You are one of them too!” But Peter said, “Man, I am not!” ⁵⁹And after about an hour had passed, some other man began to insist, saying, “Certainly this man also was with Him, ^(F)for he, too, is a Galilean.” ⁶⁰But Peter said, “Man, I do not know what you are talking about!” And immediately, while he was still speaking, a rooster crowed. ⁶¹And then ^(G)the Lord turned and looked at Peter. And Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how He had told him, “^(H)Before a rooster crows today, you will deny Me three times.” ⁶²And he went out and wept bitterly.

⁶³^(I)The men who were holding ^[a]Jesus in custody began mocking Him and beating Him, ⁶⁴and they blindfolded Him and repeatedly asked Him, saying, “^(J)Prophesy, who is the one who hit You?” ⁶⁵And they were saying many other things against Him, ^(K)blaspheming.

Jesus before the Sanhedrin

⁶⁶^(L)When it was day, ^(M)the ^[b]Council of elders of the people assembled, both chief priests and scribes, and they led Him away to their ^(N)council chamber, saying, ⁶⁷“^(O)If You are the ^[c]Christ, tell us.” But He said to them, “If I tell you, you will not believe; ⁶⁸and if I ask a question, you will not answer. ⁶⁹^(P)But from now on ^(Q)the Son of Man will be seated at the right hand of the power of God.” ⁷⁰And they all said, “So You are ^(R)the Son of God?” And He said to them, “^(S)You say correctly that I am.” ⁷¹And then they said, “What further need do we have of testimony? For we have heard it ourselves from His own mouth!”