026:060 but they could find none, although many false witnesses came forward. At length there came two 026:061 who testified, "This man said, `I am able to pull down the Sanctuary of God and three days afterwards to build a new one.'" 026:062 Then the High Priest stood up and asked Him, "Have you no answer to make? What is it these men are saying in evidence against you?" 026:063 Jesus however remained silent. Again the High Priest addressed Him. "In the name of the ever-living God," he said, "I now put you on your oath. Tell us whether you are the Christ, the Son of God." 026:064 "I am He," replied Jesus. "But I tell you that, later on, you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Omnipotence, and coming on the clouds of the sky." 026:065 Then the High Priest tore his robes and exclaimed, "Impious language! What further need have we of witnesses! See, you have now heard the impiety. 026:066 What is your verdict?" "He deserves to die," they replied. 026:067 Then they spat in His face, and struck Him--some with the fist, some with the open hand-- 026:068 while they taunted Him, saying, "Christ, prove yourself a Prophet by telling us who it was that struck you." 026:069 Peter meanwhile was sitting outside in the court of the palace, when one of the maidservants came over to him and said, "You too were with Jesus the Galilaean." 026:070 He denied it before them all, saying, "I do not know what you mean." 026:071 Soon afterwards he went out and stood in the gateway, when another girl saw him, and said, addressing the people there, "This man was with Jesus the Nazarene." 026:072 Again he denied it with an oath. "I do not know the man," he said. 026:073 A short time afterwards the people standing there came and said to Peter, "Certainly you too are one of them, for your brogue shows it." 026:074 Then with curses and oaths he declared, "I do not know the man." Immediately a cock crowed, 026:075 and Peter recollected the words of Jesus, how He had said, "Before the cock crows you will three times disown me." And he went out and wept aloud, bitterly. 027:001 When morning came all the High Priests and the Elders of the people consulted together against Jesus to put Him to death; 027:002 and binding Him they led Him away and handed Him over to Pilate the Governor. 027:003 Then when Judas, who had betrayed Him, saw that He was condemned, smitten with remorse he brought back the thirty shekels to the High Priests and Elders 027:004 and said, "I have sinned, in betraying to death one who is innocent." "What does that matter to us?" they replied; it is your business." 027:005 Flinging the shekels into the Sanctuary he left the place, and went and hanged himself.