²⁴ And seeing one `of them' suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him that was oppressed, smiting the Egyptian:

¹⁰ Simon Peter therefore having a sword drew it, and struck the high priest's servant, and cut off his right ear. Now the servant's name was Malchus.

¹¹ Jesus therefore said unto Peter, Put up the sword into the sheath: the cup which the Father hath given me, shall I not drink it?

²⁵ Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. They said therefore unto him, Art thou also `one' of his disciples? He denied, and said, I am not.

²⁶ One of the servants of the high priest, being a kinsman of him whose ear Peter cut off, saith, Did not I see thee in the garden with him?

²⁷ Peter therefore denied again: and straightway the cock crew.

²⁸ Wouldest thou kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian yesterday?