Holy Bible: Easy-To-Read Version

Matthew 26:67-72 Holy Bible: Easy-To-Read Version (ETR)

67. Then some there spit in Jesus’ face, and they hit him with their fists. Others slapped him.

68. They said, “Show us that you are a prophet, Messiah! Tell us who hit you!”

69. While Peter was sitting outside in the yard, a servant girl came up to him. She said, “You were with Jesus, that man from Galilee.”

70. But Peter told everyone there that this was not true. “I don’t know what you are talking about,” he said.

71. Then he left the yard. At the gate another girl saw him and said to the people there, “This man was with Jesus of Nazareth.”

72. Again, Peter said he was never with Jesus. He said, “I swear to God I don’t know the man!”