Luke 22:54-69

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Peter denies Jesus

⁵⁴ So they arrested Jesus, took him off, and brought him into the high priest’s house. Peter followed at a distance. ⁵⁵ They lit a fire in the middle of the courtyard and sat around it, and Peter sat in among them.

⁵⁶ A servant-girl saw him sitting by the fire. She stared hard at him. “This fellow was with him!” she said.

⁵⁷ Peter denied it. “I don’t know him, woman,” he said.

⁵⁸ After a little while another man saw him and said, “You’re one of them!”

“No, my friend, I’m not,” replied Peter.

⁵⁹ After the space of about an hour, another man insisted, “It’s true! This man was with him; he’s a Galilean too!”

⁶⁰ “My good fellow,” said Peter, “I don’t know what you’re talking about.” And at once, while he was still speaking, the cock crowed. ⁶¹ The master turned and looked at Peter, and Peter called to mind the words the master had spoken to him: “Before the cock crows, this very day, you will deny me three times.” ⁶² And he went outside and wept bitterly.

⁶³ The men who were holding Jesus began to make fun of him and knock him about. ⁶⁴ They blindfolded him.

“Prophesy!” they told him. “Who is it that’s hitting you?”

⁶⁵ And they said many other scandalous things to him.

⁶⁶ When the day broke, the official assembly of the people, the chief priests and the scribes came together, and they took him off to their council.

⁶⁷ “If you are the Messiah,” they said, “tell us!”

“If I tell you,” he said to them, “you won’t believe me. ⁶⁸ And if I ask you a question, you won’t answer me. ⁶⁹ But from now on the son of man will be seated at the right hand of God’s power.”