Peter Denies His Lord
69 Now Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard. 26:69–75 Mk 14:66–72; Lk 22:55–62; Jn 18:16–18,25–27 A servant girl approached him and said, "You were with Jesus the Galilean too."
70 But he denied it in front of everyone: "I don’t know what you’re talking about."
72 And again he denied it with an oath: 26:72 Lv 19:12; Nm 30:2; Dt 23:21; Mt 5:33; 14:7; 23:16 "I don’t know the man! "
74 Then he started to curse and to swear with an oath, "I don’t know the man! " Immediately a rooster crowed, 75 and Peter remembered the words Jesus had spoken, "Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times." 26:75 Mt 26:34; Jn 13:38; Ac 3:13–14 And he went outside and wept bitterly.