53. While I was with you daily in the temple, you did not lay hands on Me; but this hour and the power of darkness are yours."
54. Having arrested Him, they led Him away and brought Him to the house of the high priest; but Peter was following at a distance.
55. After they had kindled a fire in the middle of the courtyard and had sat down together, Peter was sitting among them.
56. And a servant-girl, seeing him as he sat in the firelight and looking intently at him, said, "This man was with Him too."
57. But he denied it, saying, "Woman, I do not know Him."
58. A little later, another saw him and said, "You are one of them too!" But Peter said, "Man, I am not!"
59. After about an hour had passed, another man began to insist, saying, "Certainly this man also was with Him, for he is a Galilean too."
60. But Peter said, "Man, I do not know what you are talking about." Immediately, while he was still speaking, a rooster crowed.
61. The Lord turned and looked at Peter. And Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how He had told him, "Before a rooster crows today, you will deny Me three times."