⁶³But Jesus was silent. Then the high priest said to him, “I put you under oath before the living God, tell us if you are the Messiah,^f the Son of God.”^* ⁶⁴Jesus said to him, “You have said so. But I tell you,

From now on you will see the Son of Man

seated at the right hand of Power

and coming on the clouds of heaven.”^*

⁶⁵Then the high priest tore his clothes and said, “He has blasphemed! Why do we still need witnesses? You have now heard his blasphemy.^* ⁶⁶What do you think?” They answered, “He deserves death.”^* ⁶⁷Then they spat in his face and struck him, and some slapped him,^* ⁶⁸saying, “Prophesy to us, you Messiah!^g Who is it that struck you?”

Peter’s Denial of Jesus

⁶⁹Now Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard. A female servant came to him and said, “You also were with Jesus the Galilean.” ⁷⁰But he denied it before all of them, saying, “I do not know what you are talking about.” ⁷¹When he went out to the porch, another female servant saw him, and she said to the bystanders, “This man was with Jesus the Nazarene.”^h ⁷²Again he denied it with an oath, “I do not know the man.” ⁷³After a little while the bystanders came up and said to Peter, “Certainly you are also one of them, for your accent betrays you.” ⁷⁴Then he began to curse, and he swore an oath, “I do not know the man!” At that moment the cock crowed. ⁷⁵Then Peter remembered what Jesus had said: “Before the cock crows, you will deny me three times.” And he went out and wept bitterly.^*

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Footnotes

fOr Christ
gOr Christ
hGk Nazorean

Cross references

*Lev 5:1; Isa 53:7; Mt 27:12, 14; Jn 18:33
*Ps 110:1; Dan 7:13; Mt 16:27, 28
*Num 14:6; Acts 14:14
*Lev 24:16; Jn 19:7
*Isa 53:3; Mt 27:30; Jn 19:3
*v 34; Jn 13:38