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 TUESDAY IN HOLY WEEK

many bore false witness against Him : and their evidences were not agreeing. And some rising up,
bore false witness against Him, saying: We heard Him say, I will destroy this temple made with
hands, and within three days I will build another not made with hands. And their evidence did not
agree. And the high priest rising up in the midst, asked Jesus, saying, Answerest Thou nothing to
the things that are laid to Thy charge by these men? But He held his peace and answered nothing.
Again the high priest asked Him and said to Him, Art Thou the Christ, the Son of the Blessed God?
And Jesus said to him, I am. And you shall see the Son of Man sitting on the right hand of the
power of God and coming with the clouds of heaven. Then the high priest rending his garments,
saith, What need we any further witnesses? You have heard the blasphemy. What think you? Who all
condemned Him to be guilty of death. And some began to spit on Him and to cover His face and to
buffet Him and to say unto Him, Prophesy. And the servants struck Him with the palms of their
hands.

THE DENIAL OF PETER

Now when Peter was in the court below, there cometh one of the maidservants of the high priest. And
when she had seen Peter warming himself, looking on him, she saith, Thou also wast with Jesus of
Nazareth. But he denied, saying, I neither know nor understand what thou sayest. And he went before
the court :and the cock crew. And again a maidservant seeing him, began to say to the standers by,
This is one of them. But he denied again. And after a while they that stood by said again to Peter,
Surely thou art one of them; for thou art also a Galilean. But he began to curse and to swear,
saying : I know not this Man of Whom you speak. And immediately the cock crew again. And Peter
remembered the word that Jesus