68. He denied it: “I don’t know what you’re talking about.” He went out on the porch. A rooster crowed.
69-70. The girl spotted him and began telling the people standing around, “He’s one of them.” He denied it again.After a little while, the bystanders brought it up again. “You’ve got to be one of them. You’ve got ‘Galilean’ written all over you.”
71-72. Now Peter got really nervous and swore, “I never laid eyes on this man you’re talking about.” Just then the rooster crowed a second time. Peter remembered how Jesus had said, “Before a rooster crows twice, you’ll deny me three times.” He collapsed in tears.