Before the Rooster Crowed: Mark 14:66-72

While Peter was below in the courtyard, one of the servant girls of the high priest came by. She saw him warming himself by the fire, looked closely at him, and said: "You also were with that Nazarene, Jesus." A servant girl. Not a soldier, not a priest—a servant girl. And Peter crumbled. "I don't know or understand what you're talking about," he said, and moved away toward the entrance.…