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Chapter 22 (645) GOSPEL OF LUKE
the temple, and presbyters who had come against him, “Have you come out as against someone leading a rebellion, with swords and clubs? When I was with you in the temple every day, you did not stretch out your hands against me! But this is your hour, and the power of the darkness.” They arrested him and led him away, and brought him into the high priest’s house. But Peter fol- lowed from a distance. When people had kin- dled a fire in the middle of the courtyard and sat down together, Peter also sat among them. A cer- tain servant girl saw him as he sat in the light, and looking intently at him, she exclaimed, “This man also was with him!” However, Peter denied him, saying, “Woman, I do not know him!” A little while later, someone else saw him, and said, “You also are one of them!” But Peter answered, “Sir, I am not!” After about one hour had passed, another insisted, saying, “Truly, this man also was with him, for he is a Galilean!” But Peter said, “Sir, I do not know what you are talking about!” And immediately, while he was still speaking, a rooster crowed. Then the Lord turned, and look- ed at Peter, and Peter remembered the Lord’s word, how he had said to him, “Before the roost- er crows, you will deny me three times.” So Peter went out and wept bitterly. Now, the men who