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?”
Truthful lips endure forever, but a lying tongue lasts only a moment.
After a little while the bystanders came up and said to Peter, “Certainly you are also one of them, for your accent betrays you.”
A little later someone else, on seeing him, said, “You also are one of them.” But Peter said, “Man, I am not!”
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.
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.