One of them, however, Caiaphas, who was High Priest that year, said to them:

Now he did not say this of his own accord; but, as High Priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was to die for the nation--

At this, Simon Peter, who had a sword with him, drew it, and struck the High Priest's servant, and cut off his right ear. The servant's name was Malchus.

And took him first of all to Annas. Annas was the father-in- law of Caiaphas, who was High Priest that year.

Meanwhile Simon Peter followed Jesus, and so did another disciple. That disciple, being well-known to the High Priest, went with Jesus into the High Priest's court-yard,

While Peter stood outside by the door. Presently the other disciple--the one well-known to the High Priest--went out and spoke to the portress, and brought Peter in.

The High Priest questioned Jesus about his disciples and about his teaching.

When Jesus said this, one of the police-officers, who was standing near, gave him a blow with his hand. "Do you answer the High Priest like that?" he exclaimed.

Annas sent him bound to Caiaphas the High Priest.

One of the High Priest's servants, a relation of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, exclaimed: "Did not I myself see you with him in the garden?"