“May I be cursed if I’m not telling the truth!” Peter said to them. “I swear that I don’t know this man you’re talking about!”
So if you think you’re standing firm, be careful—you might fall.
Peter denied it again. After a little while, those who were standing nearby said to Peter, “You must be one of them, because you’re from Galilee.”
Right then the rooster crowed for a second time. Then Peter remembered what Jesus had told him: “Before the rooster crows twice, you’ll say three times that you don’t know me.” And he broke down and cried.