Then he began to invoke a curse on himself and to swear, “I do not know the man.” And immediately the rooster crowed.
Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline, so be zealous and repent.
If anyone has no love for the Lord, let him be accursed. Our Lord, come!
Peter again denied it, and at once a rooster crowed.
And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.
For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh.
But Peter said, “Man, I do not know what you are talking about.” And immediately, while he was still speaking, the rooster crowed.
But he denied it, saying, “I neither know nor understand what you mean.” And he went out into the gateway and the rooster crowed.
And Jesus said to him, “Truly, I tell you, this very night, before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times.”
And all the people answered, “His blood be on us and on our children!”
Yet we cannot give them wives from our daughters.” For the people of Israel had sworn, “Cursed be he who gives a wife to Benjamin.”
And he said to his mother, “The 1,100 pieces of silver that were taken from you, about which you uttered a curse, and also spoke it in my ears, behold, the silver is with me; I took it.” And his mother said, “Blessed be my son by the Lord.”
Jesus said to him, “Truly, I tell you, this very night, before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.”
After a little while the bystanders came up and said to Peter, “Certainly you too are one of them, for your accent betrays you.”
And Peter remembered the saying of Jesus, “Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.” And he went out and wept bitterly.