I no longer call you slaves,<n id="1" /> because the slave does not understand<n id="2" /> what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because I have revealed to you everything<n id="3" /> I heard<n id="4" /> from my Father.

<p class="bodytext">Then Simon Peter, who had a sword, pulled it out and struck the high priest&#8217;s slave,<n id="1" /> cutting off his right ear.<n id="2" /> (Now the slave&#8217;s name was Malchus.)<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">While he was on his way down,<n id="1" /> his slaves<n id="2" /> met him and told him that his son was going to live.

The slave does not remain in the family<n id="1" /> forever, but the son remains forever.<n id="2" />

Jesus answered them, &#8220;I tell you the solemn truth,<n id="1" /> everyone who practices<n id="2" /> sin is a slave<n id="3" /> of sin.

I tell you the solemn truth,<n id="1" /> the slave<n id="2" /> is not greater than his master, nor is the one who is sent as a messenger<n id="3" /> greater than the one who sent him.

Remember what<n id="1" /> I told you, &#8216;A slave<n id="2" /> is not greater than his master.&#8217;<n id="3" /> If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they obeyed<n id="4" /> my word, they will obey<n id="5" /> yours too.

(Now the slaves<n id="1" /> and the guards<n id="2" /> were standing around a charcoal fire they had made, warming themselves because it was cold.<n id="3" /> Peter also was standing with them, warming himself.)<n id="4" />p>

One of the high priest&#8217;s slaves,<n id="1" /> a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off,<n id="2" /> said, &#8220;Did I not see you in the orchard<n id="3" /> with him?&#8221;<n id="4" />