"15 Simon Peter followed Jesus, and so did another disciple. Since that disciple was known to the high priest, he entered with Jesus into the court of the high priest, 16 but Peter stood outside at the door. So the other disciple, who was known to the high priest, went out and spoke to the servant girl who kept watch at the door, and brought Peter in. 17 The servant girl at the door said to Peter, “You also are not one of this man's disciples, are you?” He said, “I am not.” 18 Now the servants and officers had made a charcoal fire, because it was cold, and they were standing and warming themselves. Peter also was with them, standing and warming himself.
19 The high priest then questioned Jesus about his disciples and his teaching. 20 Jesus answered him, “I have spoken openly to the world. I have always taught in synagogues and in the temple, where all Jews come together. I have said nothing in secret. 21 Why do you ask me? Ask those who have heard me what I said to them; they know what I said.” 22 When he had said these things, one of the officers standing by struck Jesus with his hand, saying, “Is that how you answer the high priest?” 23 Jesus answered him, “If what I said is wrong, bear witness about the wrong; but if what I said is right, why do you strike me?” 24 Annas then sent him bound to Caiaphas the high priest.
25 Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. So they said to him, “You also are not one of his disciples, are you?” He denied it and said, “I am not.” 26 One of the servants 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?” 27 Peter again denied it, and at once a cock crowed."
John 18:15-27
Next, we consider our Lord's arraignment before the high priest. This John deals with only briefly; the ecclesiastical aspect of the trial does not occupy John nearly as much as the civil or political - we shall turn to that later. One point here, however, raises a problem. In 13 it says that Jesus was sent to Annas first, and the trial might seem to have been conducted before him not Caiaphas, whereas in the other gospels it is clearly before Caiaphas that Jesus was arraigned. But 24 seems to belong to 14, and if this is so, the order would be that Jesus was led away first to Annas who then sent him to Caiaphas, before whom the events recorded in 19ff took place. With the high priests, it is the deliberate malignity of sin that is stressed, as against the waywardness and weakness in Peter, and it is some indication of the depth and penetration of John's understanding that he should paint so telling and comprehensive a picture as he does. If we look on to 28, we see what terrifying hypocrisy was included in this malignity: 'lest they should be defiled' - to think that ritual defilement through association and contact with the Gentile judgment hall could even begin to compare with the moral defilement of what they were intent on doing to Jesus: What terrible 'bentness' this reveals in them!
We note once again that although asked in 19 about His disciples, Jesus said nothing about them. He had already indicated (8) that He was standing in for them, taking their place. They therefore had no part in this matter.