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Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. They said therefore to him, “You aren’t also one of his disciples, are you?” He denied it and said, “I am not.”
One of the servants of the high priest, being a relative of him whose ear Peter had cut off, said, “Didn’t I see you in the garden with him?”
Peter therefore denied it again, and immediately the rooster crowed.
John 18:25-27 sits inside this longer paragraph.
Annas sent him bound to Caiaphas, the high priest. Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. They said therefore to him, “You aren’t also one of his disciples, are you?” He denied it and said, “I am not.”
One of the servants of the high priest, being a relative of him whose ear Peter had cut off, said, “Didn’t I see you in the garden with him?”
Peter therefore denied it again, and immediately the rooster crowed.
Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. They said therefore to him, “You aren’t also one of his disciples, are you?” He denied it and said, “I am not.”
One of the servants of the high priest, being a relative of him whose ear Peter had cut off, said, “Didn’t I see you in the garden with him?”
Peter therefore denied it again, and immediately the rooster crowed.
And Annas sent him bounde vnto Caiphas the hye preste.
Simon Peter stode and warmed him selfe. And they sayde vnto him: arte not thou also one of his disciples? He denyed it and sayde: I am not.
One of the servauntes of the hye preste (his cosyn whose eare Peter smote of) sayde vnto him: dyd not I se the in the garden with him?
And Simon Peter stoode and warmed himselfe, and they said vnto him, Art not thou also of his disciples? He denied it, and said, I am not.
One of the seruaunts of the hie Priest, his cousin whose eare Peter smote off, saide, Did not I see thee in the garden with him?
Peter then denied againe, and immediatly the cocke crewe.
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John Calvin 1540 · Public Domain On vv25, 27 25. He denied it. How shocking the stupidity of…
25. He denied it. How shocking the stupidity of Peter, who, after having denied his Master, not only has no feeling of repentance, but hardens himself by the very indulgence he takes in sinning! If each of them in his turn had asked him, he would not have hesitated to deny his Master a thousand times. Such is the manner in which Satan hurries along wretched men, after having degraded them. We must also attend to the circumstance which is related by the other Evangelists, (Matthew 26:74; Mark 14:71,) that he began to curse and to swear, saying, that he did not know Christ. Thus it happens to many persons every day. At first, the fault will not be very great; next, it becomes habitual, and at length, after that conscience has been laid asleep, he who has accustomed himself to despise God will think nothing unlawful for him, but will dare to commit the greatest wickedness. There is nothing better for us, therefore, than to be early on our guard, that he who is tempted by Satan, while he is yet uncorrupted, may not allow himself the smallest indulgence.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain On v25 After that men have once fallen, they cannot only…
After that men have once fallen, they cannot only not lift themselves by their own strength, but also they fall more and more into worse, until they be raised up again, by a new virtue of God.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain On vv25–27 25 And Simon Peter stood and warmed himself. They…
25 And Simon Peter stood and warmed himself. They said therefore unto him, Art not thou also one of his disciples? He denied it, and said, I am not.
Ver. 25. He denied it, and said, I am not] Take heed by this example, Patres nos instruunt tum docentes, tum labentes, saith Augustine. Seest thou such as Peter to make shipwreck? Look well to thy tackling. They that will not profess Christ (unless they repent with Peter, which Stephen Gardiner said at his death that he could not) shall be sorted with such in participation of plagues, as through excess of pain and defect of patience, gnaw their own tongues, Rev 16:10.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain On v25 This history of Peter’s denial of his Master the…
This history of Peter’s denial of his Master the second time we have before met with, Mat 26:71,72; Mr 14:69,70; Luk 22:58,59, with several circumstances not mentioned by John. See Poole on "Mat 26:69".
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain On vv25–27 And Simon Peter stood and warmed himself,.... This is…
And Simon Peter stood and warmed himself,.... This is repeated from Joh 18:18 to connect the history, and carry on the thread of the account of Peter's denial of Christ, which is interrupted by inserting the examination of Christ before the high priest, which was made at the same time. Peter stood among, and continued with the servants and officers of the high priest, warming himself by a fire they had made, it being a cold night; and this proved of bad consequence to him. The company and conversation of wicked men should be abstained from; no good is got thereby; continuance among such is very dangerous; men are too often more concerned for their bodies than their souls; Satan baits his temptations for the fleshly and sensitive part; and that which is thought to be for good, is the occasion of hurt.
They said therefore unto him; the servants and officers, among whom he stood warming himself, having observed what the maid had said to him:
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art thou not also one of his disciples? suspecting that he was, though he had denied it, and therefore press him to give a direct answer: they might observe his countenance to fall, when the maid put the question to him; there might be something in his dress, and especially in his speech, which increased the suspicion:
but he denied it, and said, I am not; a second time. This denial of his being a disciple of Christ, as before, did not arise from a sense of his unworthiness to be one; nor from diffidence and distrust of a right to such a character; but from the fear of men; and being ashamed of Christ, he denies that which was his great mercy, privilege, and glory.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain On v27 Verse 27. And - the cock crew.] Peter denied…
Verse 27. And - the cock crew.] Peter denied our Lord three times: -
Peter's first denial.
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I. This took place, when he was without, or beneath, in the hall of Caiaphas's house. He was not in the higher part where Christ stood before the high priest; but without that division of the hall, and in the lower part with the servants and officers, at the fire kindled in the midst of the hall, Joh 18:16; Joh 18:18; and the girl who kept the door had entered into the hall, where she charged Peter.
Peter's second denial.
II. This was in a short time after the first, Lu 22:58. Having once denied his Master, he naturally retired from the place where his accuser was to the vestibule of the hall, Mt 26:71, and it was the time of the first cock-crowing, or soon after midnight. After remaining here a short time, perhaps an hour, another girl sees him, and says to them who were standing by in the vestibule, that he was one of them. Peter, to avoid this charge, withdraws into the hall, and warms himself. The girl, and those to whom she had spoken, follow him; the communication between the two places being immediate. Here a man enforces the charge of the girl, according to Luke; and others urge it, according to St. John; and Peter denies Jesus vehemently.
Peter's third denial.
III. He was now in the hall, and also within sight of Jesus, though at such a distance from him that Jesus could not know what passed, but in a supernatural way. And, about an hour after his second denial, those who stood by founded a third charge against him, on his being a Galilean, which St. Luke says, Lu 22:59, one in particular strongly affirmed; and which, according to John, Joh 18:26, was supported by one of Malchus's relations. This occasioned a more vehement denial than before, and immediately the cock crew the second time, which is eminently called αλεκτοροφωνια. The first denial may have been between our twelve and one; and the second between our two and three.
At the time of the third denial, Lu 22:61 proves that Jesus was in the same room with Peter. We must farther observe that Matthew, Mt 26:57, lays the scene of Peter's denials in the house of Caiaphas: whereas John, Joh 18:15-23, seems to intimate that these transactions took place in the house of Annas; but this difficulty arises from the injudicious insertion of the particle ουν, therefore, in Joh 18:24, which should be omitted, on the authority of ADES, Mt. BH, many others; besides some versions, and some of the primitive fathers. Griesbach has left it out of the text. See Bishop Newcome's Harm. notes, p. 48.
The time of Peter's denials happened during the space of the third Roman watch, or that division of the night, between twelve and three, which is called αλεκτοροφωνια, or cock-crowing, Mr 13:35. Concerning the nature and progress of Peter's denial, see the notes on Mt 26:58; Mt 26:69-75.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain On v25 See the notes at Mat 26:72-74.
See the notes at Mat 26:72-74.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain On vv25–27 And Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. They…
And Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. They said therefore . . . Art thou not also one of his disciples?--In Mat 26:71 the second charge was made by "another maid, when he was gone out into the porch," who "saw him, and said unto them that were there, This [fellow] was also with Jesus of Nazareth." So also Mar 14:69. But in Luk 22:58 it is said, "After a little while" (from the time of the first denial), "another [man] saw him, and said, Thou art also of them." Possibly it was thrown at him by more than one; but these circumstantial variations only confirm the truth of the narrative.
He denied it, and said, I am not--in Mat 26:72, "He denied with an oath, I do not know the man." This was THE SECOND DENIAL.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain On v25 Peter’s second and third denial, Joh_18:25-27.
Peter’s second and third denial, Joh_18:25-27.
The position of this part of the narrative of Peter’s denials, which seems to be separated purposely from the first denial, confirms the supposition that the whole took place during the stay of Jesus in the hall of Annas. We may add, that the clear accordance of the narratives of these denials in the different Evangelists, which discloses itself amidst apparent discrepancies, forms a striking demonstration of the truth of the history. The discrepancies show intuitively that the narratives are perfectly artless and independent, while the ultimate agreement shows that the respective authors wrote from common fact.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain On vv25–27 25. And Simon Peter stood and warmed himself] Better,…
25. And Simon Peter stood and warmed himself] Better, Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself (Joh_18:18).
They said therefore] The movement in taking Jesus from Annas to Caiaphas once more attracted attention to the stranger by the fire.
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Art not thou also] Rather, Art thou also (see on Joh_18:17). A look of sympathy and distress on S. Peter’s face, as His Master appears bound as a criminal, and perhaps with the mark of the blow (Joh_18:22) on His face, provokes the exclamation, Surely thou also art not one of His disciples?
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain On vv25–27 (25) And Simon Peter stood and warmed himself.—Better, And…
(25) And Simon Peter stood and warmed himself.—Better, And Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. (Comp. Joh_18:18.) The words are repeated to draw attention to the fact that he was standing in the court at the time when Jesus was sent from Annas unto Caiaphas, that is, from one wing of the quadrangular building across the court to the other. In Luk_22:61 it is said that “the Lord turned and looked upon Peter.”
Art not thou also one of his disciples?—Comp. Note to Joh_18:17.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain On vv25–26 Hn de . In startling contrast to this scene,…
Hn de . In startling contrast to this scene, and while Annas had completed his bad-hearted but foiled inquisition, possibly even while our Lord was being transferred from the one court to the other an event which provided an opportunity for the searching, loving, compassionate glance which broke Peter"s heart the second and third denials of Peter were also being enacted. Now Simon Peter, who had been challenged by the doorkeeper, was standing and warming himself (a form of verbal construction of auxiliary verb with participle to which John is addicted, and especially in those portions of his Gospel which represent his personal composition; Joh_1:6, Joh_1:9, Joh_1:24, 27 3:24, 27) not "sitting," as Luke describes his position at the first denial, having, we might suppose, impetuously changed his position. They said therefore unto him, Art thou also one of his disciples? This sentence of John really gathers up another moment of Peter"s terrible fall, variously and even discrepantly put by the synoptic narrative, and is virtually accordant with them all three. According to Matthew "another maid," according to Mark "the maid" who had first challenged him, returned to the assault. Nothing more likely than that what was said by one woman should be eagerly taken up by another, and therefore that both statements are true. Luke, however, describes the event thus: eterov , "another man" (perhaps "a different person") saw him and said, "Thou art one of them." John"s statement embraces the substance of all three statements, "They said unto him." The general resemblance of the second charge brought against the apostle, as stated by all four evangelists, is remarkable. The different personages by whose lips the charge was urged can best be explained by the occurrence of simultaneous and widely spreading conviction, instead of an unnecessary multiplication of the denials themselves. Matthew and Mark represent Peter as overhearing the conversation of the maids with those who were there (ekei), showing the obvious occasion for some eager eterov to take up their statement as an accusation. The difficulty of place is not so easily resolved, for Matthew and Mark speak of the "gate," pulwn , or proaulion , "porch," outer hall of the court, and John of the fire where Peter first sat in apparent unconcern. We do not know how near the fire was to the pulwn , whether it was not indeed between the yura and the pulwn , in the proaulion . According to Matthew he was moving towards the pulwn , probably in the stir of the procession from the house of Annas to the court of Caiaphas. The four evangelists agree in the declaration made by Peter. He denied, and said, I am not; i.e. I am not one of the disciples concerning whom Annas asks. "I do not know the Man."
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Paul E. Kretzmann 1924 · Public Domain On v25 Peter’s second and third denial:
Peter’s second and third denial:
v. 25. And Simon Peter stood and warmed himself. They said therefore unto him, Art not thou also one of His disciples? He denied it and said, I am not.
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v. 26. One of the servants of the high priest, being his kinsman whose ear Peter cut off, saith, Did not I see thee in the garden with Him?
v. 27. Peter then denied again; and immediately the cock crew.
While the hearing was going on in the chambers of Hannas, Peter had remained in the circle of the servants and guards near the fire. That was foolhardiness, for he that willfully courts temptation and danger usually finds himself overwhelmed by the danger. The first time Peter had denied on account of the mocking question of the doorkeeper. Her suspicions had meanwhile been transmitted to the other servants, especially through the agency of a second janitress. A. number of them now turned to Peter with searching questions as to his connection with the prisoner in the hall. The specific accusation was that Peter was a disciple of Christ. Peter denied for the second time. But the suspicion continued. One remark led to another, the dialect of Peter came in for its measure of attention. Finally a kinsman of Malchus, the man whose ear Peter had cut off in the garden, told him pointblank that he had seen him with Jesus in the garden. Peter was driven into a corner and had no weapon left with which to defend himself He blasphemously reiterated his denial, -and then the time of cock-crowing came. He had entirely overheard the first signal of warning, but now was brought back to his senses. Note: The familiarity of the evangelist with affairs in the house of the high priest is indicated also in this section by his knowledge of relationships. Mark also: A repeated denial, such as that of Peter in this case, results in loss of faith. It may happen, under regrettable circumstances, that a person, being thrown into the company of scoffers, may deny his Lord by word or deed, and still retain his faith. But if such a denial is done repeatedly without heeding the warnings of conscience, then there is no chance for Christianity to remain in the heart. That was Peter’s condition at that moment; if he had died during the time of the third denial, he would have been lost. But the Lord had His disciple in mind and called him back to faith through a sincere repentance.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On v25 General Information:
General Information:
Here the story line shifts back to Peter.
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Now
This word is used to mark a break in the story line so John can provide information about Peter. (See: Background Information)
Are you not also one of his disciples?
This remark appears in the form of a question to add emphasis. AT: "You are also one of his disciples!" (See: Rhetorical Question)
Did I not see you in the garden with him?
This remark appears in the form of a question to add emphasis. Here the word "him" refers to Jesus. AT: "I saw you in the olive tree grove with the man they arrested! Did I not?" (See: Rhetorical Question and Assumed Knowledge and Implicit Information)
Peter then denied again
Here it is implied that Peter denied knowing and being with Jesus. AT: "Peter then denied again that he knew Jesus or that he had been with him" (See: Assumed Knowledge and Implicit Information)
immediately the rooster crowed
Here it is assumed the reader will remember that Jesus had said Peter would deny him before the rooster crowed. AT: "immediately the rooster crowed, just as Jesus had said would happen" (See: Assumed Knowledge and Implicit Information)
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On v25 18:25-27 He denied it: Peter’s three denials were later…
18:25-27 He denied it: Peter’s three denials were later echoed when Jesus invited him three times to reaffirm his love (21:15-17).
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