Peter Is Afraid to Say He Knows Jesus

The soldiers arrested Jesus and took him away to the house of the high priest. Peter followed Jesus but stayed back at a distance. The soldiers started a fire in the middle of the yard and sat together. Peter sat with them. 

A servant girl saw him sitting there. Then she said, “This man was also with Jesus.”

But Peter said this was not true.

A short time later, someone else saw Peter and said, “You are also one of them.”

But Peter said, “Man, I am not!”

About an hour later, another man said, “It’s true. I’m sure this man was with him, because he is from Galilee.”

But Peter said, “Man, I don’t know what you are talking about!”

Immediately, while he was still speaking, a rooster crowed.