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What is your judgment?" They answered, "He deserves death."
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Then they spat in his face, and struck him; and some slapped him,
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saying, "Prophesy to us, you Christ! Who is it that struck you?"
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Now Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard. And a maid came up to him, and said, "You also were with Jesus the Galilean."
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But he denied it before them all, saying, "I do not know what you mean."
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And when he went out to the porch, another maid saw him, and she said to the bystanders, "This man was with Jesus of Nazareth."
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And again he denied it with an oath, "I do not know the man."
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After a little while the bystanders came up and said to Peter, "Certainly you are also one of them, for your accent betrays you."
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Then he began to invoke a curse on himself and to swear, "I do not know the man." And immediately the cock crowed.
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And Peter remembered the saying of Jesus, "Before the cock crows, you will deny me three times." And he went out and wept bitterly.