Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. They asked him, 'You are not also one of his disciples, are you?' He denied it and said, 'I am not.' — The second denial mirrors the first in form but not source: now fellow servants ("they," plural) ask Peter the same question. The repetition intensifies Peter's crisis: he must maintain the lie, deepening his apostasy. Again at the warming fire, Peter warms his hands while his heart grows cold.

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