"Even if everyone else deserts you, I will not!"
Jesus answered: "Before the rooster crows at sunrise to tell you that morning has come, you will have said three times that you do not even know me."
But Peter cried out that even if he died for it he would be true to Jesus. And all the other disciples said the same.
Presently they came to a grove called Gethsemane. It was late. Jesus said to the disciples,
"Sit here, while I go and pray."
He took only Peter and James and John with him, and went a little way apart from the rest. To the three disciples he said:
"I am greatly troubled. I do not know how I can bear it any longer. Wait here, and stay awake with me."
Going a few steps farther on, Jesus fell on his knees and began to pray aloud:
"O my Father, if it is possible, take this cup away; do not let these things happen to me! Yet not my will, but thine, be done."
When he had prayed this way, he came back to Peter and James and John. All three were fast asleep. Jesus woke Peter up, and said: