54. Then they arrested Jesus, led him away, and brought him into the high priest’s house. But Peter was following at a distance.
55. When they had made a fire in the middle of the courtyard and sat down together, Peter sat down among them.
56. Then a slave girl, seeing him as he sat in the firelight, stared at him and said, “This man was with him too!”
57. But Peter denied it: “Woman, I don’t know him!”
58. Then a little later someone else saw him and said, “You are one of them too.” But Peter said, “Man, I am not!”
59. And after about an hour still another insisted, “Certainly this man was with him, because he too is a Galilean.”
60. But Peter said, “Man, I don’t know what you’re talking about!” At that moment, while he was still speaking, a rooster crowed.
61. Then the Lord turned and looked straight at Peter, and Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said to him, “Before a rooster crows today, you will deny me three times.”
62. And he went outside and wept bitterly.
63. Now the men who were holding Jesus under guard began to mock him and beat him.