026:066 What is your verdict?" "He deserves to die," they replied.
026:067 Then they spat in His face, and struck Him—some with the fist,
some with the open hand—
026:068 while they taunted Him, saying, "Christ, prove yourself
a Prophet by telling us who it was that struck you."
026:069 Peter meanwhile was sitting outside in the court of the palace, when one of the maidservants came over to him and said, "You too were with Jesus the Galilaean."
026:070 He denied it before them all, saying, "I do not know what you mean."
026:071 Soon afterwards he went out and stood in the gateway, when another girl saw him, and said, addressing the people there, "This man was with Jesus the Nazarene."
026:072 Again he denied it with an oath. "I do not know the man," he said.
026:073 A short time afterwards the people standing there came and said to Peter, "Certainly you too are one of them, for your brogue shows it."
026:074 Then with curses and oaths he declared, "I do not know the man." Immediately a cock crowed,
026:075 and Peter recollected the words of Jesus, how He had said, "Before the cock crows you will three times disown me." And he went out and wept aloud, bitterly.