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What is your verdict?" "Guilty," they answered. "He deserves death!"
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Then they spit in his face and pounded him with their fists; and those who were beating him
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said, "Now, you `Messiah,' `prophesy' to us: who hit you that time?"
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Kefa was sitting outside in the courtyard when a servant girl came up to him. "You too were with Yeshua from the Galil," she said.
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But he denied it in front of everyone -- "I don't know what you're talking about!"
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He went out onto the porch, and another girl saw him and said to the people there, "This man was with Yeshua of Natzeret."
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Again he denied it, swearing, "I don't know the man!"
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After a little while, the bystanders approached Kefa and said, "You must be one of them -- your accent gives you away."
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This time he began to invoke a curse on himself as he swore, "I do not know the man!" -- and immediately a rooster crowed.
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Kefa remembered what Yeshua had said, "Before the rooster crows, you will disown me three times"; and he went outside and cried bitterly.