68. But he denied it: “I don’t even understand what you’re talking about!” Then he went out to the gateway, and a rooster crowed.
69. When the slave girl saw him, she began again to say to the bystanders, “This man is one of them.”
70. But he denied it again. A short time later the bystanders again said to Peter, “You must be one of them, because you are also a Galilean.”
71. Then he began to curse, and he swore with an oath, “I do not know this man you are talking about!”
72. Immediately a rooster crowed a second time. Then Peter remembered what Jesus had said to him: “Before a rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times.” And he broke down and wept.