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Jesus Predicts Peter’s Denial

27 Jesus said to them, “You will all fall away because of me. For it is written: ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.’[a] 28 But after I am raised, I will go ahead of you into Galilee.”

29 But Peter said to him, “Even if all fall away, I will not.”

30 Jesus said to him, “Amen I tell you: Today—this very night—before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times.”

31 But Peter kept saying emphatically, “Even if I have to die with you, I will never deny you.” And they all said the same thing.

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