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You've heard him dishonor God! What's your verdict?" All of them condemned him with the death sentence.
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Some of them began to spit on him. They covered his face and hit him with their fists. They said to him, "Prophesy!" Even the guards took him and slapped him.
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Peter was in the courtyard. One of the chief priest's female servants
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saw Peter warming himself. She looked at him and said, "You, too, were with Jesus from Nazareth!"
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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.
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The servant saw him. Once again she said to those who were standing around, "This man is one of them!"
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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!"
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Then Peter began to curse and swear with an oath, "I don't know this man you're talking about!"
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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.