Then he left the yard. At the gate another girl saw him and said to the people there, “This man was with Jesus of Nazareth.”
A short time later, someone else saw Peter and said, “You are also one of them.” But Peter said, “Man, I am not!”
He went to a town called Nazareth and lived there. This gave full meaning to what God said through the prophets. God said the Messiah would be called a Nazarene.
But Peter told everyone there that this was not true. “I don’t know what you are talking about,” he said.
Again, Peter said he was never with Jesus. He said, “I swear to God I don’t know the man!”