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Peter said, "Man, I don't know what you're talking about." At that very moment, the last word hardly off his lips, a rooster crowed.
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Just then, the Master turned and looked at Peter. Peter remembered what the Master had said to him: "Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times."
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The men in charge of Jesus began poking fun at him, slapping him around.
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They put a blindfold on him and taunted, "Who hit you that time?"
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