Mark 14:48-72 ▼

48 And Jesus answering, said to them: Have you come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs, to take me?

49 I was daily with you in the temple, and taught, and you did not take me; but this is so , that the scriptures may be fulfilled.

50 And they all forsook him and fled.

51 And there followed him a certain young man, who had a linen garment around his naked body. And the young men laid hold of him;

52 and he left the linen garment, and fled from them naked.

53 And they led Jesus away to the chief priest; and with him were assembled all the chief priests, and the elders, and the scribes.

54 And Peter followed him, at a distance, even into the palace of the chief priest, and sat with the attendants, and warmed himself at the fire.

55 And the chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin sought for testimony against Jesus, in order to put him to death, and found none.

56 For many testified falsely against him, and their testimony did not agree.

57 And some rose up, and testified falsely against him, saying:

58 We heard him say, I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and in three days I will build another made without hands.

59 And not even in this did their testimony agree.

60 And the chief priest stood up in the midst, and asked Jesus, saying: Do you make no answer? What do these testify against you?

61 But he was silent, and made no answer. Again, the chief priest asked him, and said to him: Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?

62 Jesus replied: I am. And you shall see the Son of man sitting at the right hand of the Almighty, and coming with the clouds of heaven.

63 And the chief priest rent his clothes, and said: What further need have we of witnesses?

64 You have heard his impious speech. What think you? They all condemned him to be a subject of death.

65 And some began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to strike him with their fists, and to say to him: Give a response. And the attendants struck him with their open hands.

66 And while Peter was in the court below, one of the maid servants of the chief priest came;

67 and when she saw Peter warming himself, she looked at him, and said: You also were with Jesus the Nazarene.

68 But he denied, saying: I neither know, nor understand what you say. And he went out into the entrance, and the cock crew.

69 And the maid-servant saw him again, and began to say to those who stood by: This man is one of them.

70 He again denied. And again, after a little while, those who stood by said to Peter: Surely, you are one of them; for you are a Galilean, and your speech is like theirs.

71 But he began to curse and to swear, saying: I know not this man of whom you speak.

72 And immediately the cock crew the second time. And Peter remembered the word that Jesus had spoken to him: Before the cock crows twice, you will deny me three times. And when he thought upon it, he wept.