61. But keeping silent, Yeshua did not answer. Again the kohen gadol questioned Him, “Are you Mashiach, Son of the Blessed One?”
62. “I am,” said Yeshua, “and you shall see ‘the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Powerful One,’ and ‘coming with the clouds of heaven’!”
63. Tearing his clothes, the kohen gadol says, “Why do we still need witnesses?
64. You’ve heard the blasphemy. What seems right to you?” Then all condemned Him as deserving death.
65. Some began to spit on Him, to blindfold Him, and to beat Him with their fists, saying, “Prophesy!” Also the guards slapped Him around.
66. As Peter was below in the courtyard, one of the servant girls of the kohen gadol comes by.
67. Seeing Peter warming himself, she looked straight at him. “You also were with Yeshua of Natzeret,” she says.
68. But he denied it, saying, “I don’t know or understand what you’re talking about!” Then he went outside to the gateway, and a rooster crowed.
69. Seeing him, the servant girl began again to tell the bystanders, “This is one of them.”
70. But again he denied it. And a little while later, the bystanders were again saying to Peter, “Surely you’re one of them, for you’re also a Galilean.”
71. But he began to curse himself and to swear an oath: “I do not know this Man you’re talking about!”
72. Right then, a rooster crowed a second time. Then Peter called to mind the word Yeshua had said to him: “Before a rooster crows twice, you will deny Me three times.” And he broke down and began to weep.