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All this time, Peter was sitting out in the courtyard. One servant girl came up to him and said, "You were with Jesus the Galilean."
70
In front of everybody there, he denied it. "I don't know what you're talking about."
71
As he moved over toward the gate, someone else said to the people there, "This man was with Jesus the Nazarene."
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Again he denied it, salting his denial with an oath: "I swear, I never laid eyes on the man."
73
Shortly after that, some bystanders approached Peter. "You've got to be one of them. Your accent gives you away."
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Then he got really nervous and swore. "I don't know the man!"
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Peter remembered what Jesus had said: "Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times." He went out and cried and cried and cried.
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