Peter Denies Jesus^(A)

⁶⁶ While Peter was down in the courtyard, one of the high priest’s servant girls came by. ⁶⁷ When she saw Peter warming himself, she glared at him and said, “You, too, were with Jesus from Nazareth.”

⁶⁸ But he denied it, saying, “I don’t know—or even understand—what you’re talking about!” Then he went out into the entryway. Just then a rooster crowed.^[a]

⁶⁹ The servant girl saw him and again told those who were standing around, “This man is one of them!” ⁷⁰ Again he denied it.

After a little while, the people who were standing there began to say to Peter again, “Obviously you’re one of them, because you are a Galilean!”

⁷¹ Then he began to invoke a divine curse and to swear with an oath, “I don’t know this man you’re talking about!” ⁷² Just then a rooster crowed a second time.

Peter remembered that Jesus told him, “Before a rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times.” Then he broke down and cried.

⁵⁶ A servant girl saw him sitting by the fire, stared at him, and said, “This man was with him, too.”

⁵⁷ But he denied it, “I don’t know him, woman!” he responded.

⁵⁸ A little later, a man looked at him and said, “You are one of them, too.”

But Peter said, “Mister,^[a] I am not!”

⁵⁹ About an hour later, another man emphatically asserted, “This man was certainly with him, because he is a Galilean!”

⁶⁰ But Peter said, “Mister,^[b] I don’t know what you’re talking about!” Just then, while he was still speaking, a rooster crowed.

⁶¹ Then the Lord turned and looked straight at Peter. And Peter remembered the word from the Lord, and how he had told him, “Before a rooster crows today, you will deny me three times.” ⁶² So he went outside and cried bitterly.

Peter Denies Jesus^(A)

¹⁵ Simon Peter and another disciple were following Jesus. Since the other disciple was known to the high priest, he accompanied Jesus into the courtyard of the high priest. ¹⁶ Peter, however, stood outside the gate. So this other disciple who was known to the high priest went out and spoke to the gatekeeper and brought Peter inside. ¹⁷ The young woman at the gate asked Peter, “You aren’t one of this man’s disciples, too, are you?”

“I am not,” he replied.

¹⁸ Meanwhile, the servants and officers were standing around a charcoal fire they had built and were warming themselves because it was cold. Peter was also standing with them, keeping himself warm.

Peter Denies Jesus Again^(A)

²⁵ Meanwhile, Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. Some people^[a] asked him, “You aren’t one of his disciples, too, are you?”

He denied it by saying, “I am not!”

²⁶ Then one of the high priest’s servants, a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, said, “I saw you in the garden with Jesus,^[b] didn’t I?” ²⁷ Peter again denied it, and immediately a rooster crowed.