[26:70] But he denied it before them all, saying, "I don't know what you are talking about."
[26:71] When he had gone out onto the porch, someone else saw him, and said to those who were there, "This man also was with Jesus of Nazareth."
[26:72] Again he denied it with an oath, "I don't know the man."
[26:73] After a little while those who stood by came and said to Peter, "Surely you are also one of them, for your speech makes you known."
[26:74] Then he began to curse and to swear, "I don't know the man!"
Immediately the rooster crowed. [26:75] Peter remembered the word which Jesus had said to him, "Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times." He went out and wept bitterly.
[a]27:1] Now when morning had come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death: [a]27:2] and they bound him, and led him away, and delivered him up to Pontius Pilate, the governor. [a]27:3] Then Judas, who betrayed him, when he saw that Jesus was condemned, felt remorse, and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, [a]27:4] saying, "I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood."
But they said, "What is that to us? You see to it."
[a]27:5] He threw down the pieces of silver in the sanctuary, and departed. He went away and hanged himself. [a]27:6] The chief priests took the pieces of silver, and said, "It's not lawful to put them into the treasury, since it is the price of blood." [a]27:7] They took counsel, and bought the potter's field with them, to bury strangers in. [a]27:8] Therefore that field was called "The Field of Blood" to this day. [a]27:9] Then that which was spoken through [Jeremiah] the prophet was fulfilled, saying,
"They took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him upon whom a price had been set, whom some of the children of Israel priced, [a]27:10] and they gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord commanded me."[*]