The High Priest questioned Jesus
about his disciples and about his teaching. 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. Why, then, do you question me? Question the people who heard me. Ask
them what I told them – they know what I said.”
When Jesus said this, one of the
guards there slapped him and said “How dare you talk like that to the High
Priest!”
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?”
Then Annas sent him, still bound to
Caiaphas the High Priest.
John 18:19-24
The disciple well known to the High Priest could not
use his influence to save Christ; in this view, they are all guilty of
betrayal. Nobody could stop what was destined as predicted by Ciaiphas. Peter
was the only one that made effort to save His Master, he was the one that spoke
about making altars at the transfiguration, he was the only that tried to
dissuade Jesus from embarking on the mission of His crucifixion out of
ignorance of what was pre-destined, he was the one who openly confessed Christ
identity. Peter tried. It was as if he was alone trying to defend His Master
out of love; but John was the beloved disciple probably because of his closeness
as His cousin gave him the privilege to be the beloved apostle. (Matt.
26:71-75, Mark 14:69-2, Luke 22:58-62)
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