Mark 14:66-72

Peter Denies Jesus Three Times

66 And [while] Peter was below in the courtyard, one of the female slaves of the high priest came up

67 And [when] she saw Peter warming himself, she looked intently at him [and] said, "You also were with the Nazarene, Jesus."

68 But he denied [it], saying, "I neither know nor understand what you mean!" And he went out into the gateway, and a rooster crowed.

69 And the female slave, [when she] saw him, began to say again to the bystanders, "This man is one of them!"

70 But he denied [it] again. And after a little [while], again the bystanders began to say to Peter, "You really are [one] of them, because you also are a Galilean, and your accent {shows it}!"

71 And he began to curse and to swear with an oath, "I do not know this man whom you are talking about!"

72 And immediately a rooster crowed for the second time. And Peter remembered the statement, how Jesus had said to him, "Before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times," and throwing himself down, he began to weep.

Footnotes

• [a]. *Here "[while]" is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle ("was")
• [b]. *Here "[when]" is supplied as a component of the participle ("saw") which is understood as temporal
• [c]. *Here "[and]" is supplied because the previous participle ("looked intently at") has been translated as a finite verb
• [d]. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
• [e]. Several important and early manuscripts lack the words "and a rooster crowed"
• [f]. *Here "[when]" is supplied as a component of the participle ("saw") which is understood as temporal
• [g]. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
• [h]. The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here ("began to say")
• [i]. Literally "is like"
• [j]. Some manuscripts omit "and your accent shows it"
• [k]. The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here ("began to weep")