Peter Denies Jesus (MAT 26:69-75)

[26:69] Now Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard. And a servant girl came up to him and said, “You also were with Jesus the Galilean.”

[26:70] But he denied it before them all, saying, “I do not know what you mean.”

[26:71] And when he went out to the entrance, another servant girl saw him, and she said to the bystanders, “This man was with Jesus of Nazareth.”

[26:72] And again he denied it with an oath: “I do not know the man.”

[26:73] After a little while the bystanders came up and said to Peter, “Certainly you too are one of them, for your accent betrays you.”

[26:74] Then he began to invoke a curse on himself and to swear, “I do not know the man.” And immediately the rooster crowed.

[26:75] And Peter remembered the saying of Jesus, “Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.” And he went out and wept bitterly.

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