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New Living Translation (NLT)

Luke 22
⁵² Then Jesus spoke to the leading priests, the captains of the Temple guard, and the elders who had come for him. “Am I some dangerous revolutionary,” he asked, “that you come with swords and clubs to arrest me?
⁵³ Why didn’t you arrest me in the Temple? I was there every day. But this is your moment, the time when the power of darkness reigns.”
⁵⁴ So they arrested him and led him to the high priest’s home. And Peter followed at a distance.
⁵⁵ The guards lit a fire in the middle of the courtyard and sat around it, and Peter joined them there.
⁵⁶ A servant girl noticed him in the firelight and began staring at him. Finally she said, “This man was one of Jesus’ followers!”
⁵⁷ But Peter denied it. “Woman,” he said, “I don’t even know him!”
⁵⁸ After a while someone else looked at him and said, “You must be one of them!” “No, man, I’m not!” Peter retorted.
⁵⁹ About an hour later someone else insisted, “This must be one of them, because he is a Galilean, too.”
⁶⁰ But Peter said, “Man, I don’t know what you are talking about.” And immediately, while he was still speaking, the rooster crowed.
⁶¹ At that moment the Lord turned and looked at Peter. Suddenly, the Lord’s words flashed through Peter’s mind: “Before the rooster crows tomorrow morning, you will deny three times that you even know me.”
⁶² And Peter left the courtyard, weeping bitterly.