The
abductors arrested Jesus and lead him away to the house of the High Priest. Peter
waited for a while and then followed at a distance. A fire was burning in the
courtyard and Peter sat down among those warming themselves at the fire. A
maid saw Peter and recognised him: Aren’t you one of those who follow Jesus?
But Peter denied this and said: I do not know him. Soon someone else
recognised him. You are one of Jesus’ disciples! Peter denied it again: No, I
certainly am not!
About
an hour later a third person said: You were with him, you also come from Galilee. Peter insisted: I do not
know what you are talking about. At that moment a cock crowed. And Peter
remembered what Jesus had said to him earlier: Before the cock crows in the
morning, you will deny me three times. Peter stood up and went out. He wept
bitterly.