The High Priest Questions Jesus (JHN 18:19-24)

[18:19] The High Priest questioned Jesus about his disciples and about his teaching.

[18:20] Jesus answered, “I have always spoken publicly to everyone; all my teaching was done in the synagogues and in the Temple, where all the people come together. I have never said anything in secret.

[18:21] Why, then, do you question me? Question the people who heard me. Ask them what I told them—they know what I said.”

[18:22] When Jesus said this, one of the guards there slapped him and said, “How dare you talk like that to the High Priest!”

[18:23] Jesus answered him, “If I have said anything wrong, tell everyone here what it was. But if I am right in what I have said, why do you hit me?”

[18:24] Then Annas sent him, still tied up, to Caiaphas the High Priest.

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