Matthew 26:69-75 (New International Version)

Peter Disowns Jesus

 ⁶⁹Now Peter was sitting out in the courtyard, and a servant girl came to him. "You also were with Jesus of Galilee," she said.

 ⁷⁰But he denied it before them all. "I don't know what you're talking about," he said.

 ⁷¹Then he went out to the gateway, where another girl saw him and said to the people there, "This fellow was with Jesus of Nazareth."

 ⁷²He denied it again, with an oath: "I don't know the man!"

 ⁷³After a little while, those standing there went up to Peter and said, "Surely you are one of them, for your accent gives you away."

 ⁷⁴Then he began to call down curses on himself and he swore to them, "I don't know the man!"

   Immediately a rooster crowed. ⁷⁵Then Peter remembered the word Jesus had spoken: "Before the rooster crows, you will disown me three times." And he went outside and wept bitterly.