Peter’s Denials

66 (A)As Peter was below in (B)the courtyard, one of the servant-girls of the high priest *came, 67 and seeing Peter (C)warming himself, she looked at him and *said, “You also were with Jesus the (D)Nazarene.” 68 But he denied it, saying, “I neither know nor understand what you are talking about.” And he (E)went out onto the (a)porch.(b) 69 The servant-girl saw him, and began once more to say to the bystanders, “This is one of them!” 70 But again (F)he denied it. And after a little while the bystanders were again saying to Peter, “Surely you are one of them, (G)for you are a Galilean too.” 71 But he began to (c)curse and swear, “I do not know this man you are talking about!” 72 Immediately a rooster crowed a second time. And Peter remembered how Jesus had made the remark to him, “Before (H)a rooster crows twice, you will deny Me three times.” (d)And he began to weep.

Footnotes:

a. Mark 14:68: ['Or ', forecourt, gateway]
b. Mark 14:68: ['Later mss add ', and a rooster crowed]
c. Mark 14:71: ['Or ', put himself under a curse]
d. Mark 14:72: ['Or ', Thinking of this, he began weeping, ' or ', Rushing out, he began weeping]

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