Mark 14:66-72

GOD’S WORD Translation

Peter Denies Jesus^(A)

⁶⁶ Peter was in the courtyard. One of the chief priest’s female servants ⁶⁷ saw Peter warming himself. She looked at him and said, “You, too, were with Jesus from Nazareth!”

⁶⁸ But Peter denied it by saying, “I don’t know him, and I don’t understand what you’re talking about.”

He went to the entrance. Then a rooster crowed.^[a]

⁶⁹ The servant saw him. Once again she said to those who were standing around, “This man is one of them!” ⁷⁰ Peter again denied it.

After a little while the men standing there said to Peter again, “It’s obvious you’re one of them. You’re a Galilean!”

⁷¹ Then Peter began to curse and swear with an oath, “I don’t know this man you’re talking about!” ⁷² Just then a rooster crowed a second time. Peter remembered that Jesus said to him, “Before a rooster crows twice, you will say three times that you don’t know me.” Then Peter began to cry very hard.