52. Then Jesus said to the chief priests and the officers of the temple guard and the elders who had come there to get him, “Did you have to come with swords and clubs, as though I were an outlaw?
53. I was with you in the Temple every day, and you did not try to arrest me. But this is your hour to act, when the power of darkness rules.”
54. They arrested Jesus and took him away into the house of the High Priest; and Peter followed at a distance.
55. A fire had been lit in the centre of the courtyard, and Peter joined those who were sitting round it.
56. When one of the servant women saw him sitting there at the fire, she looked straight at him and said, “This man too was with Jesus!”
57. But Peter denied it, “Woman, I don't even know him!”
58. After a little while a man noticed Peter and said, “You are one of them, too!”But Peter answered, “Man, I am not!”
59. And about an hour later another man insisted strongly, “There isn't any doubt that this man was with Jesus, because he also is a Galilean!”
60. But Peter answered, “Man, I don't know what you are talking about!”At once, while he was still speaking, a cock crowed.
61. The Lord turned round and looked straight at Peter, and Peter remembered that the Lord had said to him, “Before the cock crows tonight, you will say three times that you do not know me.”