The whole crowd answered, "Let the responsibility for his death fall on us and on our children!"

He told his mother, "When someone stole those eleven hundred pieces of silver from you, you put a curse on the robber. I heard you do it. Look, I have the money. I am the one who took it." His mother said, "May the LORD bless you, my son!"

but we cannot allow them to marry our daughters, because we have put a curse on anyone who allows a Benjaminite to marry one of our daughters."

The Israelites were weak with hunger that day, because Saul, with a solemn oath, had given the order: "A curse be on anyone who eats any food today before I take revenge on my enemies." So nobody had eaten anything all day.

The woods were full of honey, but no one ate any of it because they were all afraid of Saul's curse.

But one of the men told him, "We are all weak from hunger, but your father threatened us and said, 'A curse be on anyone who eats any food today.' "

Then Peter said, "I swear that I am telling the truth! May God punish me if I am not! I do not know the man you are talking about!"

The next morning some Jews met together and made a plan. They took a vow that they would not eat or drink anything until they had killed Paul.

Then they went to the chief priests and elders and said, "We have taken a solemn vow together not to eat a thing until we have killed Paul.

for my people, my own flesh and blood! For their sake I could wish that I myself were under God's curse and separated from Christ.

Whoever does not love the Lord---a curse on him! Marana tha---Our Lord, come!

Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; rather be afraid of God, who can destroy both body and soul in hell.

"Those who declare publicly that they belong to me, I will do the same for them before my Father in heaven.

But those who reject me publicly, I will reject before my Father in heaven.

After they had eaten, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon son of John, do you love me more than these others do?" "Yes, Lord," he answered, "you know that I love you." Jesus said to him, "Take care of my lambs."

A third time Jesus said, "Simon son of John, do you love me?" Peter became sad because Jesus asked him the third time, "Do you love me?" and so he said to him, "Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you!" Jesus said to him, "Take care of my sheep.

I rebuke and punish all whom I love. Be in earnest, then, and turn from your sins.

Jesus said to Peter, "I tell you that before the rooster crows two times tonight, you will say three times that you do not know me."

But he denied it. "I don't know...I don't understand what you are talking about," he answered, and went out into the passageway. Just then a rooster crowed.

Just then a rooster crowed a second time, and Peter remembered how Jesus had said to him, "Before the rooster crows two times, you will say three times that you do not know me." And he broke down and cried.

But Peter answered, "Man, I don't know what you are talking about!" At once, while he was still speaking, a rooster crowed.

Again Peter said "No"---and at once a rooster crowed.