Then he moved out to the gate that led into the courtyard. There another servant saw him and said to the people, “This man was with Jesus of Nazareth.”
A little while later someone else saw Peter and said, “You also are one of them.” “No,” he insisted, “I’m not!”
There he lived in a town called Nazareth. The prophets had said that Jesus would be called a Nazarene, and in this way their words came true.
But Peter denied it in front of everyone. “I don’t know what you’re talking about,” he insisted.
Again he denied it and said, “I swear I don’t know the man!”