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You heard the blasphemy. Are you going to stand for it?" They condemned him, one and all. The sentence: death.
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Some of them started spitting at him. They blindfolded his eyes, then hit him, saying, "Who hit you? Prophesy!" The guards, punching and slapping, took him away.
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While all this was going on, Peter was down in the courtyard. One of the Chief Priest's servant girls came in
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and, seeing Peter warming himself there, looked hard at him and said, "You were with the Nazarene, Jesus."
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He denied it: "I don't know what you're talking about." He went out on the porch. A rooster crowed.
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The girl spotted him and began telling the people standing around, "He's one of them."
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He denied it again. After a little while, the bystanders brought it up again. "You've got to be one of them. You've got 'Galilean' written all over you."
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Now Peter got really nervous and swore, "I never laid eyes on this man you're talking about."
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Just then the rooster crowed a second time. Peter remembered how Jesus had said, "Before a rooster crows twice, you'll deny me three times." He collapsed in tears.