Matthew 26:69-75 - Peter Denies Jesus Three Times

⁶⁹ Now Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard, and a servant-girl came up to him and said, “You too were with Jesus the Galilean.”

⁷⁰ But he denied it before them all, saying, “I do not know what you are talking about.”

⁷¹ And when he had gone out to the gateway, another servant-girl saw him and she said to the bystanders, “This man was with Jesus the Nazarene.”

⁷² And again he denied it with an oath, “I do not know the man.”

⁷³ After a little while the bystanders came up and said to Peter, “Surely you are one of them too; for even your [Galilean] accent gives you away.”

⁷⁴ Then he began to curse [that is, to invoke God’s judgment on himself] and swear [an oath], “I do not know the man!” And at that moment a rooster crowed. ⁷⁵ And Peter remembered the [prophetic] words of Jesus, when He had said, “Before a rooster crows, you will deny Me three times.” And he went outside and wept bitterly [in repentance].

⁶⁶ While Peter was down below in the courtyard, one of the servant-girls of the high priest came, ⁶⁷ and when she saw Peter warming himself, she looked intently at him and said, “You were with Jesus the Nazarene, too.”

⁶⁸ But he denied it, saying, “I neither know nor understand what you are talking about.” Then he went out [of the courtyard] to the porch, [and a rooster crowed.]

⁶⁹ The servant-girl saw him, and began once more to tell the bystanders, “This [man] is one of them.”

⁷⁰ But again he denied it. After a little while, the bystanders again said to Peter, “You are in fact one of them, for [it is clear from your accent, that] you are a Galilean, too.”

⁷¹ But he began to invoke a curse [on himself] and to swear [an oath], “I do not know this man you are talking about!”

⁷² Immediately a rooster crowed the second time. And Peter remembered what Jesus said to him: “Before a rooster crows twice, you will deny Me three times.” And thinking of this, he began weeping [in anguish].