Peter Denies Jesus^(A)

⁶⁹ Now Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard when a servant girl came up to him and said, “You, too, were with Jesus the Galilean.”

⁷⁰ But he denied it in front of them all. “I don’t know what you’re talking about!” he exclaimed.

⁷¹ As he went out to the gateway, another woman saw him and told those who were there, “This man was with Jesus from Nazareth.”^[a]

⁷² Again he denied it and swore with an oath, “I don’t know the man!”

⁷³ After a little while, the people who were standing there came up and told Peter, “Obviously you’re also one of them, because your accent gives you away.”

⁷⁴ Then he began to curse violently. “I don’t know the man!” he swore solemnly. Just then a rooster crowed. ⁷⁵ Peter remembered the words of Jesus when he said, “Before a rooster crows, you’ll deny me three times.” Then he went outside and cried bitterly.

⁵⁶ A servant girl saw him sitting by the fire, stared at him, and said, “This man was with him, too.”

⁵⁷ But he denied it, “I don’t know him, woman!” he responded.

⁵⁸ A little later, a man looked at him and said, “You are one of them, too.”

But Peter said, “Mister,^[a] I am not!”

⁵⁹ About an hour later, another man emphatically asserted, “This man was certainly with him, because he is a Galilean!”

⁶⁰ But Peter said, “Mister,^[b] I don’t know what you’re talking about!” Just then, while he was still speaking, a rooster crowed.

⁶¹ Then the Lord turned and looked straight at Peter. And Peter remembered the word from the Lord, and how he had told him, “Before a rooster crows today, you will deny me three times.” ⁶² So he went outside and cried bitterly.

Peter Denies Jesus^(A)

¹⁵ Simon Peter and another disciple were following Jesus. Since the other disciple was known to the high priest, he accompanied Jesus into the courtyard of the high priest. ¹⁶ Peter, however, stood outside the gate. So this other disciple who was known to the high priest went out and spoke to the gatekeeper and brought Peter inside. ¹⁷ The young woman at the gate asked Peter, “You aren’t one of this man’s disciples, too, are you?”

“I am not,” he replied.

¹⁸ Meanwhile, the servants and officers were standing around a charcoal fire they had built and were warming themselves because it was cold. Peter was also standing with them, keeping himself warm.

Peter Denies Jesus Again^(A)

²⁵ Meanwhile, Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. Some people^[a] asked him, “You aren’t one of his disciples, too, are you?”

He denied it by saying, “I am not!”

²⁶ Then one of the high priest’s servants, a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, said, “I saw you in the garden with Jesus,^[b] didn’t I?” ²⁷ Peter again denied it, and immediately a rooster crowed.