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The Second Sorrowful Mystery - The Scourging at the Pillar

CHAPTER 11

Jesus Is Led Before Annas. Peter's Denials.

Then the band and the tribune and the servants of the Jews took Jesus and bound Him. And they led
Him away to the
house of Annas first, for he was father-in-law to Caiphas, who was the high priest of that year.
(Now Caiphas was he who had given
the counsel to the Jews, that it was expedient that one man should die for the people.)

And Simon Peter followed Jesus from afar off, and so did another disciple. And that disciple was
known to the high priest, and went in with Jesus into the court of the high priest. But Peter
stood at the door without. The other disciple therefore, who was known to the high priest, went out
and spoke to the portress, and brought in Peter.

And going in, that he might see the end, he sat with the servants in the court, without. Now the
servants and ministers had kindled a fire of coals in the midst of the hall, because it was cold,
and were sitting about it, warming themselves. And Peter also was in the midst of the servants at
the fire, warming himself. And when a certain servant maid [i.e., the above-mentioned portress] of
the high priest had seen him sitting at the light, and had earnestly looked on him, she said: "Thou
also wast with the Galilean, Jesus of Nazareth. This man also was with Him!"

They said therefore to him: "Art not thou also one of His disciples?" But he denied Him before them
all, saying: "I am not;' and, "Woman, I neither know nor understand what thou sayest. I know Him
not." And he went forth before the court; and the cock crew.

And as he went out of the gate, another maid saw him, and she began to say to the standers-by:
"This is one of them. This man also was with Jesus of Nazareth!" But he denied again with an oath:
"I know not the man."