Daily Discovery Bible Study

65 Then the high priest tore his clothes, and said, “He's speaking blasphemy! Why do we need any witnesses? Look, now you've heard for yourselves his blasphemy!66 What's your verdict?”

“Guilty! He deserves to die!” they answered. 67 Then they spat in his face and beat him. Some of them slapped him with their hands,68 and said, “Prophesy to us, you ‘Messiah’! Who just hit you?”

69 Meanwhile Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard. A servant girl came up to him, and said, “You were with Jesus the Galilean too!”70 But he denied it in front of everyone. “I don't know what you're talking about,” he said.

71 When he went back to the courtyard entrance another servant girl saw him and said to the people there, “This man was with Jesus of Nazareth.”72 Once again he denied it, saying with an oath, “I don't know him.”73 A little while later the people standing there came up to Peter and said, “You definitely are one of them. Your accent gives you away.”74 Then he started to swear: “Curses on me if I'm a liar! I don't know the man!” Immediately the cock crowed.

75 Then Peter remembered what Jesus had told him: “Before the cock crows, three times you will deny knowing me.” He went outside and wept bitterly.

Matthew 26: 65-75