After a little while the men standing there came to Peter. "Of course you are one of them," they said. "After all, the way you speak gives you away!"

Then Peter said, "I swear that I am telling the truth! May God punish me if I am not! I do not know that man!" Just then a rooster crowed,

And about an hour later another man insisted strongly, "There isn't any doubt that this man was with Jesus, because he also is a Galilean!"

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

One of the High Priest's slaves, a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, spoke up. "Didn't I see you with him in the garden?" he asked.

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

they would tell him to say "Shibboleth." But he would say "Sibboleth," because he could not pronounce it correctly. Then they would grab him and kill him there at one of the Jordan River crossings. At that time forty-two thousand of the Ephraimites were killed.

In amazement and wonder they exclaimed, "These people who are talking like this are Galileans!