Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

³¹ `Simon, Simon, listen! Satan has asked to have all of you. He wants to shake you like grain with the cleaning fan.

³² But I have talked to God about you, Simon, so that you will keep on believing in me. And when you come back, then help your brothers to be strong.'

³³ Simon said, `Lord, I will go with you, even to prison or to die.'

⁵⁴ The men caught Jesus and took him away to the high priest's house. Peter followed them far behind.

⁵⁵ They made a fire in the yard and sat around it. Peter sat down with them.

⁵⁶ A woman saw Peter sitting by the fire. She looked at him and said, `This man was with him also.'

⁵⁷ But Peter said, `Woman, I do not know him.'

⁵⁸ After a while, another person saw him and said, `You are one of them also.' But Peter said, `Man, I am not.'

⁵⁹ About an hour later another person said, `Surely this man was with him. He comes from Galilee.'

⁶⁰ Peter said, `Man, I do not know what you are talking about.' And right then, while he was talking, the cock called.

⁶¹ The Lord turned and looked at Peter. Then Peter remembered that the Lord had said to him, `Before the cock calls in the morning, you will say three times that you do not know me.'

⁶² Peter went out and cried very much.