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^(C1)Now they arrested Him and led Him away, and brought Him to the house of the high priest; but ^(C2)Peter was following at a distance.

^(C1)After they kindled a fire in the middle of ^(C2)the courtyard and sat down together, Peter was sitting among them.

And a slave woman, seeing him as he sat in the firelight, and staring at him, said, "This man was with Him as well."

But he denied it, saying, "I do not know Him, woman!"

And a little later, ^(C1)another person saw him and said, "You are one of them too!" But Peter said, "Man, I am not!"

And after about an hour had passed, some other man began to insist, saying, "Certainly this man also was with Him, ^(C1)for he, too, is a Galilean."

But Peter said, "Man, I do not know what you are talking about!" And immediately, while he was still speaking, a rooster crowed.

And then ^(C1)the Lord turned and looked at Peter. And Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how He had told him, "^(C2)Before a rooster crows today, you will deny Me three times."

And he went out and wept bitterly.