The Passion History:
69 Now Peter was sitting out in the courtyard, and a servant girl came to him. “You
also were with Jesus of Galilee,” she said. 70 But he denied it before them all. “I
don’t know what you’re talking about,” he said. 71 Then he went out to the
gateway, where another girl saw him and said to the people there, “This fellow
was with Jesus of Nazareth.” 72 He denied it again, with an oath: “I don’t know
the man!” 73 After a little while, those standing there went up to Peter and said,
“Surely you are one of them, for your accent gives you away.”
74 Then he began to call down curses on himself and he swore to them, “I don’t
know the man!” Immediately a rooster crowed. 75 Then Peter remembered the
word Jesus had spoken: “Before the rooster crows, you will disown me three
times.” And he went outside and wept bitterly.
27:1 Early in the morning, all the chief priests and the elders of the people came to
the decision to put Jesus to death. 2 They bound him, led him away and handed
him over to Pilate, the governor. 3 When Judas, who had betrayed him, saw that
Jesus was condemned, he was seized with remorse and returned the thirty silver
coins to the chief priests and the elders. 4 “I have sinned,” he said, “for I have
betrayed innocent blood.”
“What is that to us?” they replied. “That’s your responsibility.” 5 So Judas threw
the money into the temple and left. Then he went away and hanged himself. 6
The chief priests picked up the coins and said, “It is against the law to put this
into the treasury, since it is blood money.” 7 So they decided to use the money to
buy the potter’s field as a burial place for foreigners. 8 That is why it has been
called the Field of Blood to this day.
9 Then what was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled: “They took the
thirty silver coins, the price set on him by the people of Israel, 10 and they used
them to buy the potter’s field, as the Lord commanded me.”
This is the Passion History of our Lord.