So they arrested Jesus, took him off, and brought him into the high priest’s house. Peter followed at a distance.

They lit a fire in the middle of the courtyard and sat around it, and Peter sat in among them. A servant-girl saw him sitting by the fire. She stared hard at him. ‘This fellow was with him!’ she said. Peter denied it. ‘I don’t know him, woman,’ he said. After a little while another man saw him and said, ‘You’re one of them!’ ‘No, my friend, I’m not,’ replied Peter.

After the space of about an hour, another man insisted, ‘It’s true! This man was with him; he’s a Galilean too!’ ‘My good fellow,’ said Peter, ‘I don’t know what you’re talking about.’ And at once, while he was still speaking, the cock crowed.

The master turned and looked at Peter, and Peter called to mind the words the master had spoken to him: ‘Before the cock crows, this very day, you will deny me three times.’ And he went outside and wept bitterly.

The men who were holding Jesus began to make fun of him and knock him about. They blindfolded him. ‘Prophesy!’ they told him. ‘Who is it that’s hitting you?’ And they said many other scandalous things to him.

Wright, Tom. The Bible for Everyone . SPCK. Kindle Edition.

O Love, O God who created me, in your love recreate me.
O Love, who redeemed me,
fill up in me whatever part of your love
has fallen into neglect within me.
O Love, O God, who first loved me,
grant that with my whole heart,
and with my whole soul,
and with my whole strength,
I may love you.

Gertrude the Great