Peter Denies His Lord

⁶⁶ While^(A) Peter^(B) was in the courtyard below, one of the high priest’s maidservants came. ⁶⁷ When she saw Peter warming himself, she looked at him and said, “You also were with Jesus, the man from Nazareth.”^(C)

⁶⁸ But he denied it: “I don’t know or understand what you’re talking about.” Then he went out to the entryway,^[a] and a rooster crowed.^[b]

⁶⁹ When the maidservant saw him again, she began to tell those standing nearby, “This man is one of them.”

⁷⁰ But again he denied it. After a little while those standing there said to Peter again, “You certainly are one of them, since you’re also a Galilean.”^[c](D)

⁷¹ Then he started to curse and swear,^(E) “I don’t know this man you’re talking about!”

⁷² Immediately a rooster crowed a second time,^(F) and Peter remembered when Jesus had spoken the word to him, “Before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times.” And he broke down and wept.

Jesus Visits Zacchaeus

19 He entered Jericho and was passing through. ² There was a man named Zacchaeus who was a chief tax collector, and he was rich. ³ He was trying to see who Jesus was, but he was not able because of the crowd, since he was a short man. ⁴ So running ahead, he climbed up a sycamore tree to see Jesus, since he was about to pass that way. ⁵ When Jesus came to the place, he looked up and said to him, “Zacchaeus, hurry and come down because today it is necessary for me to stay at your house.”

⁶ So he quickly came down and welcomed him joyfully. ⁷ All who saw it began to complain,^(A) “He’s gone to stay with a sinful man.”

⁸ But Zacchaeus stood there and said to the Lord, “Look, I’ll give half of my possessions to the poor,^(B) Lord. And if I have extorted^(C) anything from anyone, I’ll pay back four times as much.”^(D)

⁹ “Today salvation^(E) has come to this house,” Jesus told him, “because he too is a son of Abraham.^{(F) 10} For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save the lost.”^(G)

¹⁸ In this way God fulfilled what he had predicted through all the prophets—that his Messiah would suffer.^{(A) 19} Therefore repent^(B) and turn back, so that your sins may be wiped out,^{(C) 20} that seasons of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and that he may send Jesus, who has been appointed^(D) for you as the Messiah. ²¹ Heaven must receive him until the time of the restoration of all things, which God spoke about through his holy prophets from the beginning.^{(E) 22} Moses said:^[a] The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You must listen to everything he tells you.

⁴ Or do you despise the riches of his kindness,^(A) restraint,^(B) and patience,^(C) not recognizing^[a] that God’s kindness^(D) is intended to lead you to repentance?