And the chief priests and all the council sought for witness against Jesus to put him to death; and found none.

But found none: yea, though many false witnesses came, {yet} found they none. At the last came two false witnesses,

And as he said these things unto them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to urge {him} vehemently, and to provoke him to speak of many things:

And the men that held Jesus mocked him, and smote {him}.

And they watched {him}, and sent forth spies, which should feign themselves just men, that they might take hold of his words, that so they might deliver him unto the power and authority of the governor.

The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach,

But Jesus held his peace. And the high priest answered and said unto him, I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us whether thou be the Christ, the Son of God.

Then said the high priest, Are these things so?

And they led Jesus away to the high priest: and with him were assembled all the chief priests and the elders and the scribes.

But Peter followed him afar off unto the high priest's palace, and went in, and sat with the servants, to see the end.

For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together,

And he taught them many things by parables, and said unto them in his doctrine,