⁷⁴ Then with curses and oaths he said, I have no knowledge of the man. And straight away there came the cry of a cock.

¹⁹ To all those who are dear to me, I give sharp words and punishment: then with all your heart have sorrow for your evil ways.

²² If any man has not love for the Lord, let him be cursed. Maran atha (our Lord comes).

¹² And when it was day, the Jews came together and put themselves under an oath that they would take no food or drink till they had put Paul to death.

¹³ And more than forty of them took this oath.

¹⁴ And they came to the chief priests and the rulers and said, We have taken a great oath to take no food till we have put Paul to death

²⁸ And have no fear of those who put to death the body, but are not able to put to death the soul. But have fear of him who has power to give soul and body to destruction in hell.

³ For I have a desire to take on myself the curse for my brothers, my family in the flesh:

¹⁵ Then when they had taken food, Jesus said to Simon Peter, Simon, son of John, is your love for me greater than the love of these others? He said to him, Yes, Lord; you are certain of my love for you. He said to him, Then give my lambs food.

¹⁶ Again, a second time, he said to him, Simon, son of John, have you any love for me? Yes, Lord, he said, you are certain of my love for you. Then take care of my sheep, said Jesus.

¹⁷ He said to him a third time, Simon, son of John, am I dear to you? Now Peter was troubled in his heart because he put the question a third time, Am I dear to you? And he said to him, Lord, you have knowledge of all things; you see that you are dear to me. Jesus said to him, Then give my sheep food.

²⁷ Then again Peter said, No. And straight away a cock gave its cry.

⁶⁰ And Peter said, Man, I have no knowledge of these things of which you are talking. And straight away, while he was saying these words, there came the cry of a cock.

⁷¹ But, with curses and oaths, he said, I have no knowledge of the man about whom you are talking.

⁷² And in the same minute, the cock gave a second cry. And it came to Peter's mind how Jesus had said to him, Before the cock's second cry, you will say three times that you have no knowledge of me. And at this thought he was overcome with weeping.

⁶⁸ But he said, I have no knowledge of him, or of what you are saying: and he went out into the doorway; and there came the cry of a cock.

³⁰ And Jesus said to him, Truly, I say to you that you, today, even this night, before the cock's second cry, will say three times that you have no knowledge of me.

²⁵ And all the people made answer and said, Let his blood be on us, and on our children.

³² To everyone, then, who gives witness to me before men, I will give witness before my Father in heaven.

³³ But if anyone says before men that he has no knowledge of me, I will say that I have no knowledge of him before my Father in heaven.

²⁴ And all the people were with Saul, about twenty thousand men, and the fight was general through all the hill-country of Ephraim; but Saul made a great error that day, by putting the people under an oath, saying, Let that man be cursed who takes food before evening comes and I have given punishment to those who are against me. So the people had not a taste of food.

²⁵ And there was honey on the face of the field, and all the people came to the honey, the bees having gone from it;

²⁶ But not a man put his hand to his mouth for fear of the curse.

²⁷ But Jonathan, having no knowledge of the oath his father had put on the people, stretching out the rod which was in his hand, put the end of it in the honey, and put it to his mouth; then his eyes were made bright.

²⁸ Then one of the people said to him, Your father put the people under an oath, saying, Let that man be cursed who takes any food this day. And the people were feeble, needing food.

¹⁸ Seeing that we may not give them our daughters as wives? For the children of Israel had taken an oath, saying, Cursed is he who gives a wife to Benjamin.

² And he said to his mother, The eleven hundred shekels of silver which were taken from you, about which you took an oath and said in my hearing, I have given this silver to the Lord from my hand for myself, to make a pictured image and a metal image: see, I have the silver, for I took it: so now I will give it back to you. And his mother said, May the blessing of the Lord be on my son.