⁵³ And they led Jesus to the highest priest. And all the priests and scribes and elder men came together [And all came together into one, the priests and the scribes and elder men].

⁵⁴ But Peter followed him afar [till] into the hall of the highest priest. And he sat with the servants, and warmed him(self) at the fire.

⁵⁵ And the highest priests, and all the council, sought witnessing against Jesus to take him to the death [that they should betake him to death]; but they found not.

⁵⁶ For many said false witnessing against him, and the witnessings were not suitable [and the witnessings were not covenable].

⁵⁷ And some rose up, and bare false witnessing against him, and said [saying],

⁵⁸ For we heard him saying [say], I shall undo this temple made with hands, and after the third day [and by the third day] I shall build another not made with hands.

⁵⁹ And the witnessing of them was not suitable. [And the witnessing of them was not covenable.]

⁶⁰ And the highest priest rose up into the middle, and asked Jesus, and said^[a], Answerest thou nothing to those things that be put against thee of these [men]?

⁶¹ But he was still, and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked him [Again the highest priest asked him], and said to him, Art thou Christ, the Son of the blessed God?

⁶² And Jesus said to him, I am; and ye shall see man's Son sitting on the right half of the virtue of God, and coming in the clouds of heaven.

⁶³ And the high priest rent his clothes, and said, What yet desire we witnesses? [Forsooth the highest priest, cutting his clothes, saith, What yet desire we witnesses?]

⁶⁴ Ye have heard blasphemy. What seemeth to you? And they all condemned him to be guilty of death.

⁶⁵ And some began to bespit him, and to cover his face, and to smite him with buffets, and to say to him, Declare thou [And some began to spit on him, and to hide his face, and smite him with buffets, and say to him, Prophesy thou]. And the ministers beat him with strokes.