³¹ Simon, Simon (Peter), listen! Satan ^[a]has asked excessively that [all of] you be given up to him [out of the power and keeping of God], that he might sift [all of] you like grain,^(A)

³² But I have prayed especially for you [Peter], that your [own] faith may not fail; and when you yourself have turned again, strengthen and establish your brethren.

⁵⁶ Then a servant girl, seeing him as he sat in the firelight and gazing [intently] at him, said, This man too was with ^[a]Him.

⁵⁷ But he denied it and said, Woman, I do not know Him!

⁵⁸ And a little later someone else saw him and said, You are one of them also. But Peter said, Man, I am not!

⁵⁹ And when about an hour more had elapsed, still another emphatically insisted, It is the truth that this man also was with Him, for he too is a Galilean!

⁶⁰ But Peter said, Man, I do not know what you are talking about. And instantly, while he was still speaking, the cock crowed.

⁶¹ And the Lord turned and looked at Peter. And Peter recalled the Lord’s words, how He had told him, Before the cock crows today, you will deny Me thrice.