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- Then seizing him, they led him away and took him into the house of the high priest. Peter followed at a distance.
- But when they had kindled a fire in the middle of the courtyard and had sat down together, Peter sat down with them.
- A servant girl saw him seated there in the firelight. She looked closely at him and said, "This man was with him."
- But he denied it. "Woman, I don't know him," he said.
- A little later someone else saw him and said, "You also are one of them." "Man, I am not!" Peter replied.
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- About an hour later another asserted, "Certainly this fellow was with him, for he is a Galilean."
- Peter replied, "Man, I don't know what you're talking about!" Just as he was speaking, the rooster crowed.
- The Lord turned and looked straight at Peter. Then Peter remembered the word the Lord had spoken to him: "Before the rooster crows today, you will disown me three times."
- And he went outside and wept bitterly.
- The men who were guarding Jesus began mocking and beating him.
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- They blindfolded him and demanded, "Prophesy! Who hit you?"
- And they said many other insulting things to him.
- At daybreak the council of the elders of the people, both the chief priests and teachers of the law, met together, and Jesus was led before them.
- "If you are the Christ," they said, "tell us." Jesus answered, "If I tell you, you will not believe me,
- and if I asked you, you would not answer.
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- But from now on, the Son of Man will be seated at the right hand of the mighty God."
- They all asked, "Are you then the Son of God?" He replied, "You are right in saying I am."
- Then they said, "Why do we need any more testimony? We have heard it from his own lips."
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