PETER’S DENIAL PREDICTED

31 Then Jesus said to them, “Tonight all of you will fall away because of me, for it is written:

I will strike the shepherd,

and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.F,y

32 But after I have risen, I will go ahead of you to Galilee.”z

33 Peter told him, “Even if everyone falls away because of you, I will never fall away.”

34 “Truly I tell you,” Jesus said to him, “tonight, before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.”aa

35 “Even if I have to die with you,” Peter told him, “I will never deny you,” and all the disciples said the same thing.