Lk 22:54

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took.

Our blessed Lord before his death passed another examination. One was before the Jewish Sanhedrim, whose proper province it was to try such as were accused as false prophets or blasphemers. This was a kind of ecclesiastical court.

The other, with which the next chapter opens, was before Pilate, the Roman governor of Judea at that time; he principally took cognizance of criminal things, such especially as concerned the peace of the country, considered as part of the Roman empire.

Matt 26:57; Matt 26:58; Mark 14:53; Mark 14:54; John 18:12-17; John 18:24

And Peter.

Luke 22:33; Luke 22:34; 2Chr 32:31