said, 'Man, I am not. I do not know the Man.'

An hour passed by, and then some of the people near said, 'You must be
one of the disciples of Jesus. The way that you speak shows that you
come from Galilee.' While Peter was again denying him, Jesus turned
round, and looked upon Peter. And Peter remembered what Jesus had said
to him, 'Before the cock crow twice, you will say three times you do
not know Me.' And when he thought about what he had done, he was very,
very sorry; and he went out of the high priest's palace, and wept
bitterly.




CHAPTER XII

THE CRUCIFIXION AND THE RESURRECTION

When the morning came, the priests met once more with all the chief
Jews, and said Jesus must die. But the Jews could not put anyone to
death. The Romans would not allow it. So they took Jesus to the Roman
governor, whose name was Pontius Pilate.

When Judas saw that the priests had made up their minds to kill Jesus,
he began to feel very unhappy. He did not care for the money now. He
came to the Temple, and brought it back to the priest, and said, 'It
was very wrong of me to give Jesus up to you. He had done nothing
wrong.' But their hearts were as hard as stone. They said to Judas,
'What is that to us? See thou to that.' Then Judas had no hope left.
He flung the thirty pieces of silver down in the Court of the Priests,