NEW TESTAMENT

Matthew 26:69

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Now Peter was sitting outside in the court, and a maid came to him, saying, “You were also with Jesus, the Galilean!”

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Verse 69. Peter sat without in the palace: that is in the open court below, where the servants had lighted a fire. There came to him a certain servant-maid, the portress, says Saint John, 18:17. But he denied, saying: I know not what thou sayest. In Saint Luke, I know him not: in Saint John, I am not. The sense is the same; and Peter might use all these expressions. Witham.

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