72. Again Peter denied it and answered, “I swear that I don't know that man!”
73. After a little while the men standing there came to Peter. “Of course you are one of them,” they said. “After all, the way you speak gives you away!”
74. Then Peter said, “I swear that I am telling the truth! May God punish me if I am not! I do not know that man!”Just then a cock crowed,
75. and Peter remembered what Jesus had told him: “Before the cock crows, you will say three times that you do not know me.” He went out and wept bitterly.