Luke 22:54--23:25
Jesus’ Condemnation and Peter’s Denials
22:54 Then they arrested Jesus, led him away, and brought him into the high priest’s house. But Peter was following at a distance.
22:55 When they had made a fire in the middle of the courtyard and sat down together, Peter sat down among them.
22:56 Then a slave girl, seeing him as he sat in the firelight, stared at him and said, “This man was with him too!”
22:57 But Peter denied it: “Woman, I don’t know him!”
22:58 Then a little later someone else saw him and said, “You are one of them too.” But Peter said, “Man, I am not!”
22:59 And after about an hour still another insisted, “Certainly this man was with him, because he too is a Galilean.”
22:60 But Peter said, “Man, I don’t know what you’re talking about!” At that moment, while he was still speaking, a rooster crowed.
22:61 Then 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.”
22:62 And he went outside and wept bitterly.
22:63 Now the men who were holding Jesus under guard began to mock him and beat him.
22:64 They blindfolded him and asked him repeatedly, “Prophesy! Who hit you?”
22:65 They also said many other things against him, reviling him.
22:66 When 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
22:67 and said, “If you are the Christ, tell us.” But he said to them, “If I tell you, you will not believe,
22:68 and if I ask you, you will not answer.
22:69 But from now on the Son of Man will be seated at the right hand of the power of God.”
22:70 So they all said, “Are you the Son of God, then?” He answered them, “You say that I am.”
22:71 Then they said, “Why do we need further testimony? We have heard it ourselves from his own lips!”
Jesus Brought Before Pilate
23:1 Then the whole group of them rose up and brought Jesus before Pilate.
23:2 They began to accuse him, saying, “We found this man subverting our nation, forbidding us to pay the tribute tax to Caesar and claiming that he himself is Christ, a king.”
23:3 So Pilate asked Jesus, “Are you the king of the Jews?” He replied, “You say so.”
23:4 Then Pilate said to the chief priests and the crowds, “I find no basis for an accusation against this man.”
23:5 But they persisted in saying, “He incites the people by teaching throughout all Judea. It started in Galilee and ended up here!”
Jesus Brought Before Herod
23:6 Now when Pilate heard this, he asked whether the man was a Galilean.
23:7 When he learned that he was from Herod’s jurisdiction, he sent him over to Herod, who also happened to be in Jerusalem at that time.
23:8 When Herod saw Jesus, he was very glad, for he had long desired to see him, because he had heard about him and was hoping to see him perform some miraculous sign.
23:9 So Herod questioned him at considerable length; Jesus gave him no answer.
23:10 The chief priests and the experts in the law were there, vehemently accusing him.
23:11 Even Herod with his soldiers treated him with contempt and mocked him. Then, dressing him in elegant clothes, Herod sent him back to Pilate.
23:12 That very day Herod and Pilate became friends with each other, for prior to this they had been enemies.
Jesus Brought Before the Crowd
23:13 Then Pilate called together the chief priests, the rulers, and the people,
23:14 and said to them, “You brought me this man as one who was misleading the people. When I examined him before you, I did not find this man guilty of anything you accused him of doing.
23:15 Neither did Herod, for he sent him back to us. Look, he has done nothing deserving death.
23:16 I will therefore have him flogged and release him.”
23:17 [[EMPTY]]
23:18 But they all shouted out together, “Take this man away! Release Barabbas for us!”
23:19 (This was a man who had been thrown into prison for an insurrection started in the city, and for murder.)
23:20 Pilate addressed them once again because he wanted to release Jesus.
23:21 But they kept on shouting, “Crucify, crucify him!”
23:22 A third time he said to them, “Why? What wrong has he done? I have found him guilty of no crime deserving death. I will therefore flog him and release him.”
23:23 But they were insistent, demanding with loud shouts that he be crucified. And their shouts prevailed.
23:24 So Pilate decided that their demand should be granted.
23:25 He released the man they asked for, who had been thrown in prison for insurrection and murder. But he handed Jesus over to their will.