As he moved over toward the gate, someone else said to the people there, “This man was with Jesus the Nazarene.”
In front of everybody there, he denied it. “I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
Again he denied it, salting his denial with an oath: “I swear, I never laid eyes on the man.”
A short time later, someone else noticed him and said, “You’re one of them.” But Peter denied it: “Man, I am not.”