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A little while later, someone else saw him and said, "You are one of them too." But Peter said, "Man, I'm not!"
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An hour or so later, someone else insisted, "This man must have been with him, because he is a Galilean too."
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Peter responded, "Man, I don't know what you are talking about!" At that very moment, while he was still speaking, a rooster crowed.
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The Lord turned and looked straight at Peter, and Peter remembered the Lord's words: "
Before a rooster crows today, you will deny me three times."
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And Peter went out and cried uncontrollably.
Jesus taunted
63 The men who were holding Jesus in custody taunted him while they beat him.
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They blindfolded him and asked him repeatedly, "Prophesy! Who hit you?"
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Insulting him, they said many other horrible things against him.
Jesus before the Jerusalem leadership
66 As morning came, the elders of the people, both chief priests and legal experts, came together, and Jesus was brought before their council.
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They said, "If you are the Christ, tell us!" He answered, "
If I tell you, you won't believe.
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And if I ask you a question, you won't answer.