Jesus Predicts Peter’s Denial

31 Then Jesus said to them, “You will all fall away because of me during this night, for it is written,

‘I will strike the shepherd
    and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’[a]

32 But after I am raised, I will go ahead of you into Galilee.” 33 But Peter answered and[b] said to him, “If they all fall away because of you, I will never fall away!”

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 26:31 A quotation from Zech 13:7
  2. Matthew 26:33 Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“answered”) has been translated as a finite verb