John 18:26-28

Expanded Bible

²⁶ One of the ·servants [slaves; bond-servants] of the high priest was there. This servant was a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off [see 18:10]. The servant said, “Didn’t I see you with him in the ·garden [grove]?”

²⁷ Again Peter ·said it wasn’t true [denied it]. At once ·a rooster [^Tthe cock] crowed.

Jesus Is Brought Before Pilate^(A)

²⁸ Early in the morning they [^Cthe Jewish leaders] led Jesus from Caiaphas’s house to the ·Roman governor’s palace [or governor’s headquarters; ^LPraetorium]. They would not go inside the ·palace [^LPraetorium], because they did not want to make themselves ·unclean [^Caccording to early Jewish sources a Jew who entered the house of a Gentile would become ritually unclean]; they wanted to eat the Passover meal.