73 After a little while those standing there approached and said to Peter, “You certainly are one of them, since even your accent[a] gives you away.”

74 Then he started to curse[b] and to swear with an oath, “I do not know the man!” Immediately a rooster crowed, 75 and Peter remembered the words Jesus had spoken, “Before the rooster crows, you will deny Me three times.”(A) And he went outside and wept bitterly.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 26:73 Or speech
  2. Matthew 26:74 To call down curses on himself if what he said weren’t true

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