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One of the servant girls saw him sitting in the light of the fire, stared at him and said, "This man also was with him."
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But he denied it: "Lady, I don't even know him."
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A little later, someone else saw him and said, "You're one of them too"; but Kefa said, "Man, I am not!"
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About an hour later, another man asserted emphatically, "There can be no doubt that this fellow was with him, because he too is from the Galil!"
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But Kefa said, "Man, I don't know what you're talking about!" And instantly, while he was still speaking, a rooster crowed.
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The Lord turned and looked straight at Kefa; and Kefa remembered what the Lord had said, "Before the rooster crows today, you will deny me three times."
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And he went outside and cried bitterly.
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Meanwhile, the men who were holding Yeshua made fun of him. They beat him,
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blindfolded him, and kept asking him, "Now, `prophesy'! Who hit you that time?"
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And they said many other insulting things to him.
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At daybreak, the people's council of elders, including both head cohanim and Torah-teachers, met and led him off to their Sanhedrin,