014:066 Now while Peter was below in the quadrangle, one of the
High Priest's maidservants came,
014:067 and seeing Peter warming himself she looked at him and said,
"You also were with Jesus, the Nazarene."
014:068 But he denied it, and said, "I don't know--I don't understand--
What do you mean?" And then he went out into the outer court.
Just then a cock crowed.
014:069 Again the maidservant saw him, and again began to say to
the people standing by, "He is one of them."
014:070 A second time he repeatedly denied it. Soon afterwards
the bystanders again accused Peter, saying, "You are surely
one of them, for you too are a Galilaean."
014:071 But he broke out into curses and oaths, declaring, "I know
nothing of the man you are talking about."
014:072 No sooner had he spoken than a cock crowed for the second time,
and Peter recollected the words of Jesus, "Before the
cock crows twice, you will three times disown me."
And as he thought of it, he wept aloud.
015:001 At earliest dawn, after the High Priests had held a consultation
with the Elders and Scribes, they and the entire Sanhedrin
bound Jesus and took Him away and handed Him over to Pilate.
015:002 So Pilate questioned Him. "Are *you* the King of the Jews?"
he asked. "I am," replied Jesus.
015:003 Then, as the High Priests went on heaping accusations on Him,
015:004 Pilate again and again asked Him, "Do you make no reply?
Listen to the many charges they are bringing against you."
015:005 But Jesus made no further answer: so that Pilate wondered.
015:006 Now at the Festival it was customary for Pilate to release to
the Jews any one prisoner whom they might beg off from punishment;
015:007 and at this time a man named Barabbas was in prison