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Narrative: The Lord’s Passover

And Peter denied it, and said,
“Man I am not.”

And again he denied with an oath,
“I do not know the man.”
And a little after, about the space of one hour after came unto him they that stood by, and said
again to Peter,
“Surely thou art one of them: For thy speech betrayeth thee for thou art a Galilæean, and thy

speech agreeth thereto.”
Another confidently affirmed, saying,
“Of a truth this fellow also was with him: For he is a Galilæan.”
One of the servants of the high priest, being his kinsman whose ear Peter cut off, saith,

“Did not I see thee in the garden with him?”
Then began he to curse and to swear, saying,
“I know not this man of whom ye speak.”
Peter then denied again: And Peter said,
“Man, I know not what thou sayest.”

And immediately, while he yet spake, the second time the cock crew. And the Lord turned,
and looked upon Peter. And Peter remembered the word of the Lord Jesus, how he had said unto him,
“Before the cock crow twice, thou shalt deny me thrice.”
And when he thought thereon, Peter went out, and wept bitterly.

And the men that held Jesus mocked him, and smote him. And when they had blindfolded him,
they struck him on the face, and asked him, saying,
“Prophesy, who is it that smote thee?”
And many other things blasphemously spake they against him.
And straightway when the morning was come, as soon as it was day, all the chief priests with

the elders of the people and scribes and the whole council, came together, held a consultation against
Jesus to put him to death: And led him into their council, saying,

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