The servants and police-officers were standing round a char- coal fire (which they had made because it was cold), and were warming themselves. Peter, too, was with them, standing and warming himself.

Then he came and found the three Apostles asleep. "Simon," he said to Peter, "are you asleep? Could not you watch for one hour?

Presently a maidservant saw him sitting near the blaze of the fire. Fixing her eyes on him, she said: "Why, this man was one of his companions!"

They

Peter, meanwhile, was sitting outside in the courtyard; and a maidservant came up to him, and exclaimed: "Why, you were with Jesus the Galilean!"

But Peter denied it. "I do not know or understand what you mean," he replied. Then he went out into the porch;

A little while afterwards some one else--a man--saw him and said: "Why, you are one of them!" "No," Peter said, "I am not."

He

But, when Peter came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face; for he stood self-condemned.

General references

Presently Simon Peter came following behind him, and went into the tomb; and he looked at the linen wrappings lying there,

And, seeing an Israelite ill-treated, he defended him, and avenged the man, who was being wronged, by striking down the Egyptian.