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What's your verdict?" They answered, "He deserves the death penalty!"
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Then they spit in his face, hit him with their fists, and some of them slapped him.
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They said, "You Christ, if you're a prophet, tell us who hit you."
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Peter was sitting in the courtyard. A female servant came to him and said, "You, too, were with Jesus the Galilean."
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But Peter denied it in front of them all by saying, "I don't know what you're talking about."
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As he went to the entrance, another female servant saw him. She told those who were there, "This man was with Jesus from Nazareth."
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Again Peter denied it and swore with an oath, "I don't know the man!"
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After a little while the men standing there approached Peter and said, "It's obvious you're also one of them. Your accent gives you away!"
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Then Peter began to curse and swear with an oath, "I don't know the man!" Just then a rooster crowed.
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Peter remembered what Jesus had said: "Before a rooster crows, you will say three times that you don't know me." Then Peter went outside and cried bitterly.