Shared Word Translation
Matthew 26
Peter Denies Jesus
Now Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard, and a servant girl came up to him and said, “You also were with Jesus the Galilean.” But he denied it before them all, saying, “I do not know what you are saying.”
And when he had gone out to the gateway, another servant girl saw him, and she said to those there, “This man was with Jesus of Nazareth.” And again he denied it with an oath: “I do not know the man.”
After a little while the bystanders came up and said to Peter, “Certainly you also are one of them, for your speech makes you clear.” Then he began to invoke a curse on himself and to swear, “I do not know the man!” And immediately a rooster crowed. And Peter remembered the word Jesus had spoken: “Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.” And he went out and wept bitterly.