Mark 14:63-72 ▼

63 And the chief priest rent his clothes, and said: What further need have we of witnesses?

64 You have heard his impious speech. What think you? They all condemned him to be a subject of death.

65 And some began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to strike him with their fists, and to say to him: Give a response. And the attendants struck him with their open hands.

66 And while Peter was in the court below, one of the maid servants of the chief priest came;

67 and when she saw Peter warming himself, she looked at him, and said: You also were with Jesus the Nazarene.

68 But he denied, saying: I neither know, nor understand what you say. And he went out into the entrance, and the cock crew.

69 And the maid-servant saw him again, and began to say to those who stood by: This man is one of them.

70 He again denied. And again, after a little while, those who stood by said to Peter: Surely, you are one of them; for you are a Galilean, and your speech is like theirs.

71 But he began to curse and to swear, saying: I know not this man of whom you speak.

72 And immediately the cock crew the second time. And Peter remembered the word that Jesus had spoken to him: Before the cock crows twice, you will deny me three times. And when he thought upon it, he wept.