Peter Denies Jesus^(A)

⁶⁹ Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard when one of the High Priest's servant women came to him and said, “You, too, were with Jesus of Galilee.”

⁷⁰ But he denied it in front of them all. “I don't know what you are talking about,” he answered, ⁷¹ and went on out to the entrance of the courtyard. Another servant woman saw him and said to the men there, “He was with Jesus of Nazareth.”

⁷² Again Peter denied it and answered, “I swear that I don't know that man!”

⁷³ After a little while the men standing there came to Peter. “Of course you are one of them,” they said. “After all, the way you speak gives you away!”

⁷⁴ Then Peter said, “I swear that I am telling the truth! May God punish me if I am not! I do not know that man!”

Just then a rooster crowed, ⁷⁵ and Peter remembered what Jesus had told him: “Before the rooster crows, you will say three times that you do not know me.” He went out and wept bitterly.

⁵⁶ When one of the servant women saw him sitting there at the fire, she looked straight at him and said, “This man too was with Jesus!”

⁵⁷ But Peter denied it, “Woman, I don't even know him!”

⁵⁸ After a little while a man noticed Peter and said, “You are one of them, too!”

But Peter answered, “Man, I am not!”

⁵⁹ And about an hour later another man insisted strongly, “There isn't any doubt that this man was with Jesus, because he also is a Galilean!”

⁶⁰ But Peter answered, “Man, I don't know what you are talking about!”

At once, while he was still speaking, a rooster crowed. ⁶¹ The Lord turned around and looked straight at Peter, and Peter remembered that the Lord had said to him, “Before the rooster crows tonight, you will say three times that you do not know me.” ⁶² Peter went out and wept bitterly.

Peter Denies Jesus^(A)

¹⁵ Simon Peter and another disciple followed Jesus. That other disciple was well known to the High Priest, so he went with Jesus into the courtyard of the High Priest's house, ¹⁶ while Peter stayed outside by the gate. Then the other disciple went back out, spoke to the girl at the gate, and brought Peter inside. ¹⁷ The girl at the gate said to Peter, “Aren't you also one of the disciples of that man?”

“No, I am not,” answered Peter.

¹⁸ It was cold, so the servants and guards had built a charcoal fire and were standing around it, warming themselves. So Peter went over and stood with them, warming himself.

Peter Denies Jesus Again^(A)

²⁵ Peter was still standing there keeping himself warm. So the others said to him, “Aren't you also one of the disciples of that man?”

But Peter denied it. “No, I am not,” he said.

²⁶ One of the High Priest's slaves, a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, spoke up. “Didn't I see you with him in the garden?” he asked.

²⁷ Again Peter said “No”—and at once a rooster crowed.