53. Every day I was with you in the temple courts, and you did not lay a hand on me. But this is your hour—when darkness reigns.”
54. Then seizing him, they led him away and took him into the house of the high priest. Peter followed at a distance.
55. And when some there had kindled a fire in the middle of the courtyard and had sat down together, Peter sat down with them.
56. A servant girl saw him seated there in the firelight. She looked closely at him and said, “This man was with him.”
57. But he denied it. “Woman, I don’t know him,” he said.
58. A little later someone else saw him and said, “You also are one of them.” “Man, I am not!” Peter replied.
59. About an hour later another asserted, “Certainly this fellow was with him, for he is a Galilean.”
60. Peter replied, “Man, I don’t know what you’re talking about!” Just as he was speaking, the rooster crowed.