Then he started to curse and to swear with an oath, “I do not know the man! ” Immediately a rooster crowed,
Don’t fear those who kill the body but are not able to kill the soul; rather, fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
“I assure you,” Jesus said to him, “tonight, before the rooster crows, you will deny Me three times! ”
After a little while those standing there approached and said to Peter, “You certainly are one of them, since even your accent gives you away.”
and Peter remembered the words Jesus had spoken, “Before the rooster crows, you will deny Me three times.” And he went outside and wept bitterly.
All the people answered, “His blood be on us and on our children! ”
“I assure you,” Jesus said to him, “today, this very night, before the rooster crows twice, you will deny Me three times! ”
But he denied it: “I don’t know or understand what you’re talking about! ” Then he went out to the entryway, and a rooster crowed.
But Peter said, “Man, I don’t know what you’re talking about! ” Immediately, while he was still speaking, a rooster crowed.
Peter then denied it again. Immediately a rooster crowed.
For I could almost wish to be cursed and cut off from the Messiah for the benefit of my brothers, my own flesh and blood.
If anyone does not love the Lord, a curse be on him. Marana tha that is, Lord, come!
As many as I love, I rebuke and discipline. So be committed and repent.
He said to his mother, “The 1,100 pieces of silver taken from you, and that I heard you utter a curse about — here, I have the silver with me. I took it. So now I return it to you.” Then his mother said, “My son, you are blessed by the Lord! ”
But we can’t give them our daughters as wives.” For the Israelites had sworn, “Anyone who gives a wife to a Benjaminite is cursed.”