One of the slaves of the high priest, a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, asked, “Did I not see you in the garden with him?”
Then Simon Peter, who had a sword, drew it, struck the high priest’s slave, and cut off his right ear. The slave’s name was Malchus.
After Jesus had spoken these words, he went out with his disciples across the Kidron Valley to a place where there was a garden, which he and his disciples entered.
After a little while the bystanders came up and said to Peter, “Certainly you are also one of them, for your accent betrays you.”
Truthful lips endure forever, but a lying tongue lasts only a moment.
A little later someone else, on seeing him, said, “You also are one of them.” But Peter said, “Man, I am not!”