Peter’s Denial Predicted

³¹ “Simon, Simon,^[a] look out. Satan^(A) has asked to sift you^[b] like wheat.^{(B) 32} But I have prayed^(C) for you^[c] that your faith may not fail. And you, when you have turned back, strengthen^(D) your brothers.”

³³ “Lord,”^(E) he told him, “I’m ready to go with you both to prison and to death.”

³⁴ “I tell you, Peter,” he said, “the rooster will not crow today until^[d] you deny three times that you know me.”

¹³ The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our ancestors,^(A) has glorified his servant Jesus, whom you handed over and denied before Pilate,^(B) though he had decided to release him. ¹⁴ You denied the Holy and Righteous One^(C) and asked to have a murderer released to you.^(D)