Then he began to invoke a curse on himself and he swore, “I do not know the Man.” Then immediately a cock crowed.
Do not fear those who kill the body but are not able to kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
Jesus said to him, “Truly I say to you, this night, before the cock crows, you will deny Me three times.”
After a while those who stood by came to Peter and said, “Surely you also are one of them, for your accent betrays you.”
Then Peter remembered the word Jesus had spoken, “Before a cock crows, you will deny Me three times.” Then he went out and wept bitterly.
Then all the people answered, “His blood be on us and on our children!”
Jesus said to him, “Truly, I say to you that this day, during the night, before the cock crows twice, you will deny Me three times.”
But he denied it, saying, “I neither know nor understand what you are saying.” Then he went out to the porch, and a cock crowed.
Peter said, “Man, I do not know what you are saying.” Immediately, while he was yet speaking, the cock crowed.
Peter then denied it again, and immediately a cock crowed.
For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers, my kinsmen by race,
If anyone does not love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be accursed. Come, O Lord!
“Those whom I love, I rebuke and discipline. Therefore be zealous and repent.
He said to his mother, “The eleven hundred shekels of silver that were taken from you, on which you put a curse, even speaking the curse in my ears—behold, the silver with me. I took it.” Then his mother said, “May the Lord bless my son!”
Yet we cannot give them our daughters for wives, for the Israelites swore, ‘Cursed be anyone who gives a wife to Benjamin.’ ”