Matthew 26:69-75 - Peter Denies Jesus Three Times
69 Peter meanwhile was sitting outside in the court of the palace, when one of the maidservants came over to him and said, "You too were with Jesus the Galilaean."
70 He denied it before them all, saying, "I do not know what you mean."
71 Soon afterwards he went out and stood in the gateway, when another girl saw him, and said, addressing the people there, "This man was with Jesus the Nazarene."
72 Again he denied it with an oath. "I do not know the man," he said.
73 A short time afterwards the people standing there came and said to Peter, "Certainly you too are one of them, for your brogue shows it."
74 Then with curses and oaths he declared, "I do not know the man." Immediately a cock crowed, 75 and Peter recollected the words of Jesus, how He had said, "Before the cock crows you will three times disown me." And he went out and wept aloud, bitterly.
66 Now while Peter was below in the quadrangle, one of the High Priest's maidservants came, 67 and seeing Peter warming himself she looked at him and said, "You also were with Jesus, the Nazarene."
68 But he denied it, and said, "I don't know--I don't understand--What do you mean?" And then he went out into the outer court. Just then a cock crowed.
69 Again the maidservant saw him, and again began to say to the people standing by, "He is one of them."
70 A second time he repeatedly denied it. Soon afterwards the bystanders again accused Peter, saying, "You are surely one of them, for you too are a Galilaean."
71 But he broke out into curses and oaths, declaring, "I know nothing of the man you are talking about."
72 No sooner had he spoken than a cock crowed for the second time, and Peter recollected the words of Jesus, "Before the cock crows twice, you will three times disown me." And as he thought of it, he wept aloud.