Mark 14:66-72

Contemporary English Version

Peter Says He Doesn't Know Jesus

(Matthew 26.69-75; Luke 22.56-62; John 18.15-18,25-27)

⁶⁶ While Peter was still in the courtyard, a servant girl of the high priest came up ⁶⁷ and saw Peter warming himself by the fire. She stared at him and said, “You were with Jesus from Nazareth!”

⁶⁸ Peter replied, “That isn't true! I don't know what you're talking about. I don't have any idea what you mean.” He went out to the gate, and a rooster crowed.^[a]

⁶⁹ The servant girl saw Peter again and said to the people standing there, “This man is one of them!”

⁷⁰ “No, I'm not!” Peter replied.

A little while later some of the people said to Peter, “You certainly are one of them. You're a Galilean!”

⁷¹ This time Peter began to curse and swear, “I don't even know the man you're talking about!”

⁷² At once the rooster crowed a second time. Then Peter remembered that Jesus had told him, “Before a rooster crows twice, you will say three times that you don't know me.” So Peter started crying.