56. Then a servant woman saw him sitting in the firelight. She stared at him and said, "This man was with him too."
57. But Peter denied it, saying, "Woman, I don’t know him!"
58. A little while later, someone else saw him and said, "You are one of them too." But Peter said, "Man, I’m not!"
59. An hour or so later, someone else insisted, "This man must have been with him, because he is a Galilean too."
60. Peter responded, "Man, I don’t know what you are talking about!" At that very moment, while he was still speaking, a rooster crowed.
61. The Lord turned and looked straight at Peter, and Peter remembered the Lord’s words: "Before a rooster crows today, you will deny me three times."
62. And Peter went out and cried uncontrollably.
63. The men who were holding Jesus in custody taunted him while they beat him.
64. They blindfolded him and asked him repeatedly, "Prophesy! Who hit you?"