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.
64. They blindfolded him and asked him repeatedly, “Prophesy! Who hit you?”
65. They also said many other things against him, reviling him.
66. When day came, the council of the elders of the people gathered together, both the chief priests and the experts in the law. Then they led Jesus away to their council