Then Simon Peter drew a sword and slashed off the right ear of Malchus, the high priest’s slave.
Jesus replied, “I tell you the truth, Peter—this very night, before the rooster crows twice, you will deny three times that you even know me.”
But one of the men with Jesus pulled out his sword and struck the high priest’s slave, slashing off his ear.
Peter said, “Lord, I am ready to go to prison with you, and even to die with you.”
But one of the household slaves of the high priest, a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, asked, “Didn’t I see you out there in the olive grove with Jesus?”