st of them. (56)But a
certain maid-servant who sat at the fire, eyeing him, and looking at
him stedfastly, said, This man was also with him. (57)But he denied
him, saying, Woman, I know him not. (58)And after a little while
another seeing him, said, Surely thou art one of them. Then said Peter,
Man, I am not. (59)And at about an hour's distance, another person
strongly asserted, saying, Of a certainty this fellow was also with
him: for he too is a Galilean. (60)And Peter said, Man, I know not what
thou sayest. And instantly, while he was yet speaking, the cock crew.
(61)And the Lord, turning round, looked upon Peter. And Peter
remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said to him, That before
the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. (62)And Peter going without,
wept bitterly.

(63)And the men who held Jesus insulted him, beating him with rods;
(64)and blindfolding him, smote him on the face, and asked him, saying,
Prophesy, who is he that struck thee? (65)And many other things,
blaspheming, spake they against him.

(66)And when the day broke, the elders of the people and the chief
priests and scribes assembled, and brought him into their sanhedrim,
saying, (67)If thou art the Messiah, tell us. And he said unto them, If
I tell you, ye will not believe: (68)and if I shall ask you any
question, ye will neither answer me, nor let me go free. (69)Hereafter
shall the Son of man sit at the right hand of the power of God.
(70)Then said they all, Art thou then the Son of God? And he said unto
them, Yourselves say that I am. (71)Then they said, What further need
have we of witness? for we have heard it from his own mouth.

CHAP. XXIII.

AND the whole multitude of them rising up, led him to Pilate, (2)and
began to accuse him, saying, We have found this fellow perverting the
nation, and forbidding to pay tribute to Caesar; pretending that he
himself is the King Messiah. (3)Then Pilate interrogated him, saying,
Art thou the King of the Jews? And he answering said to him, Thou
sayest so. (4)Then said Pilate unto the chief priests and the
multitudes, I find nothing culpable in this man. (5)But they were
urgent, saying, He stirreth up the people, teaching through all Judea,
beginning from Galilee even to this place. (6)When Pilate heard of
Galilee, he asked whether the man were a Galilean? (7)And when he knew
that he came out of Herod's jurisdiction, he sent him to Herod, who was
himself at Jerusalem in those days.

(8)Now wh