53. When I was with you in the temple daily, you didn’t stretch out your hands against me. But this is your hour, and the power of darkness.”
54. They seized him, and led him away, and brought him into the high priest’s house. But Peter followed from a distance.
55. When they had kindled a fire in the middle of the courtyard, and had sat down together, Peter sat among them.
56. A certain servant girl saw him as he sat in the light, and looking intently at him, said, “This man also was with him.”
57. He denied Yeshua, saying, “Woman, I don’t know him.”
58. After a little while someone else saw him, and said, “You also are one of them!”But Peter answered, “Man, I am not!”
59. After about one hour passed, another confidently affirmed, saying, “Truly this man also was with him, for he is a Galilean!”
60. But Peter said, “Man, I don’t know what you are talking about!” Immediately, while he was still speaking, a rooster crowed.
61. The Lord turned and looked at Peter. Then Peter remembered the Lord’s word, how he said to him, “Before the rooster crows you will deny me three times.”
62. He went out, and wept bitterly.
63. The men who held Yeshua mocked him and beat him.
64. Having blindfolded him, they struck him on the face and asked him, “Prophesy! Who is the one who struck you?”
65. They spoke many other things against him, insulting him.
66. As soon as it was day, the assembly of the elders of the people were gathered together, both chief priests and scribes, and they led him away into their council, saying,
67. “If you are the Messiah, tell us.”But he said to them, “If I tell you, you won’t believe,