Luke 22:52-71

52Then Jesus said to the chief priests, the officers of the temple guard, and the elders who had come out to get him, “Have you come out with swords and clubs like you would against an outlaw?

53Day after day when I was with you in the temple courts, you did not arrest me. But this is your hour, and that of the power of darkness!”

54Then they arrested Jesus, led him away, and brought him into the high priest’s house. But Peter was following at a distance.

55When they had made a fire in the middle of the courtyard and sat down together, Peter sat down among them.

56Then a slave girl, seeing him as he sat in the firelight, stared at him and said, “This man was with him too!”

57But Peter denied it: “Woman, I don’t know him!”

58Then a little later someone else saw him and said, “You are one of them too.” But Peter said, “Man, I am not!”

59And after about an hour still another insisted, “Certainly this man was with him, because he too is a Galilean.”

60But Peter said, “Man, I don’t know what you’re talking about!” At that moment, while he was still speaking, a rooster crowed.

61Then the Lord turned and looked straight at Peter, and Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said to him, “Before a rooster crows today, you will deny me three times.”

62And he went outside and wept bitterly.

63Now the men who were holding Jesus under guard began to mock him and beat him.

64They blindfolded him and asked him repeatedly, “Prophesy! Who hit you?”

65They also said many other things against him, reviling him.

66When day came, the council of the elders of the people gathered together, both the chief priests and the experts in the law. Then they led Jesus away to their council

67and said, “If you are the Christ, tell us.” But he said to them, “If I tell you, you will not believe,

68and if I ask you, you will not answer.

69But from now on the Son of Man will be seated at the right hand of the power of God.”

70So they all said, “Are you the Son of God, then?” He answered them, “You say that I am.”

71Then they said, “Why do we need further testimony? We have heard it ourselves from his own lips!”