There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, a certain priest, by name Zacharias, of the course of Abijah, and his wife of the daughters of Aaron, and her name Elisabeth;

And it came to pass, in his acting as priest, in the order of his course before God,

And he charged him to tell no one, 'But, having gone away, shew thyself to the priest, and bring near for thy cleansing according as Moses directed, for a testimony to them;'

'And by a coincidence a certain priest was going down in that way, and having seen him, he passed over on the opposite side;

And a certain one of them smote the servant of the chief priest, and took off his right ear,

And having taken him, they led and brought him to the house of the chief priest. And Peter was following afar off,