* took.
   Our blessed Lord before his death passed another examination.
   One was before the Jewish Sanhedrim, whose proper province it
   was to try such as were accused as false prophets or
   blasphemers.  This was a kind of ecclesiastical court.  The
   other, with which the next chapter opens, was before Pilate,
   the Roman governor of Judea at that time; he principally took
   cognizance of criminal things, such especially as concerned
   the peace of the country, considered as part of the Roman
   empire.

  Mt 26:57,58  Mr 14:53,54  Joh 18:12-17,24 
 * And Peter.
  33,34  2Ch 32:31