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Then the high priest tore his clothes and said, "He has blasphemed! Why do we still need witnesses? You have now heard his blasphemy.
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What is your verdict?" 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 Messiah! Who is it that struck you?"
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Now Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard. A servant-girl came to him and said, "You also were with Jesus the Galilean."
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But he denied it before all of them, saying, "I do not know what you are talking about."
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When he went out to the porch, another servant-girl saw him, and she said to the bystanders, "This man was with Jesus of Nazareth."
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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 curse, and he swore an oath, "I do not know the man!" At that moment the cock crowed.
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Then Peter remembered what Jesus had said: "Before the cock crows, you will deny me three times." And he went out and wept bitterly.