[Holy Week]: #17; Peter's Denials

   Now Peter sat outside in the courtyard. And a
servant girl came to him, saying, "You also were
with Jesus of Galilee."
   But he denied it before them all, saying, "I do
not know what you are saying."
   And when he had gone out to the gateway,
another girl saw him and said to those who were
there, "This fellow also was with Jesus of Nazar-
eth."
   But again he denied with an oath, "I do not
know the Man!"
   And a little later those who stood by came up
and said to Peter, "Surely you also are one of them,
for your speech betrays you."
   Then he began to curse and swear, saying, "I do
not know the Man!"
   Immediately a rooster crowed. And Peter re-
membered the word of Jesus who had said to him,
"Before the rooster crows, you will deny Me three
times." So he went out and wept bitterly.

Matthew 26:69-75