Peter's Denial

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Mat 26:69–75

69 Meanwhile Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard. A servant girl came up to 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,” he said.
71 When he went back to the courtyard entrance another servant girl saw him and said to the people there, “This man was with Jesus of Nazareth.”
72 Once again he denied it, saying with an oath, “I don't know him.”
73 A little while later the people standing there came up to Peter and said, “You definitely are one of them. Your accent gives you away.”
74 Then he started to swear: “Curses on me if I'm a liar! I don't know the man!” Immediately the cock crowed.
75 Then Peter remembered what Jesus had told him: “Before the cock crows, three times you will deny knowing me.” He went outside and wept bitterly.

Mrk 14:66–72

66 Meanwhile Peter was down below in the courtyard. One of the high priest's servant-girls passed by,
67 and seeing Peter warming himself, looked straight at him and said, “You were with Jesus of Nazareth too!”
68 But he denied it. “I don't know what you're talking about or what you mean,” he replied. Then he went out to the forecourt, and a rooster crowed.
69 Seeing him there, the servant girl repeated to those standing around, “This man is one of them!”
70 Once more Peter denied it. A little while later they said to Peter again, “You're definitely one of them because you're a Galilean too!”
71 Peter began calling down curses on himself and he swore, “I don't know this man who you're talking about.”
72 Immediately the rooster crowed the second time. Then Peter remembered what Jesus had said to him: “Before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times.” When he realized what he'd done, he burst into tears.

Luk 22:54–62

54 They arrested him and led him away, taking him to the chief priest's house. Peter followed at a distance.
55 They started a fire in the middle of the courtyard and sat down by it. Peter was there among them.
56 As he sat there, a servant girl noticed him in the firelight, and stared directly at him and said,
57 “This man was with him.” But Peter denied it. “Woman, I don't know him!” he said.
58 A little later someone else looked at him and said, “You're also one of them.” “No, I'm not!” Peter replied.
59 About an hour later, another person insisted, “I'm sure he was with him too—he's a Galilean.”
60 “I've no idea what you're talking about!” Peter replied. Right then, while he was still speaking, the cock crowed. The Lord turned and looked at Peter.
61 And Peter remembered what the Lord had said, how he'd told him: “Before the cock crows today, you'll deny me three times.”
62 Peter went out and wept bitterly.

Jhn 18:15–27

15 Simon Peter followed Jesus, and another disciple did so too. This disciple was well-known to the high priest, and so he entered the high priest's courtyard with Jesus.
16 Peter had to remain outside by the door. So the other disciple who was known to the high priest went and spoke to the servant girl watching the door and brought Peter inside.
17 The girl asked Peter, “Aren't you one of that man's disciples?” “Me? No, I'm not,” he replied.
18 It was cold, and the servants and guards were standing by a fire they had made, warming themselves. Peter went and stood with them, warming himself.
19 Then the chief priest questioned Jesus about his disciples and what he had been teaching.
20 “I've spoken openly to everyone,” Jesus replied. “I always taught in the synagogues and in the Temple where all the Jewish people meet. I haven't said anything in secret.
21 So why are you questioning me? Ask the people who heard me what I told them. They know what I said.”
22 When he said this, one of the guards standing nearby slapped Jesus, saying, “Is that any way to speak to the high priest?”
23 Jesus replied, “If I said something wrong, tell everyone what was wrong with it. But if what I said was right, why did you hit me?”
24 Annas sent him, his hands still tied, to Caiaphas the high priest.
25 As Simon Peter stood warming himself by the fire, the people there asked him, “Aren't you one of his disciples?” Peter denied it and said, “No, I'm not.”
26 One of the high priest's servants, a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, asked Peter, “Didn't I see you in the olive grove with him?”
27 Peter denied it again, and immediately a cock crowed.