But he spoke all the more, “If I must die with you, I will not deny you.” They all said the same thing.
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But he spoke all the more, “If I must die with you, I will not deny you.” They all said the same thing.
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And he spake boldlyer: no yf I shulde dye with the I will not deny the. Lyke wyse also sayd they all.
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But he saide more earnestly. If I shoulde die with thee, I will not denie thee: likewise also saide they all.
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Passages linked to Mark 14:31 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Exodus 19:8 All the people answered together, and said, “All that Yahweh has spoken we will do.” Moses reported the words of the people to Yahweh.
- John 13:37 Peter said to him, “Lord, why can’t I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you.”
- Deuteronomy 5:27-29 Go near, and hear all that Yahweh our God shall say, and tell us all that Yahweh our God tells you; and we will hear it, and do it.” Yahweh heard the voice of your words when you spoke to me; and Yahweh said to me, “I have heard the voice of the words of this people which they have spoken to you. They have well said all that they have spoken. Oh that there were such a heart in them that they would fear me and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them and with their children forever!
- 2 Kings 8:13 Hazael said, “But what is your servant, who is but a dog, that he could do this great thing?” Elisha answered, “Yahweh has shown me that you will be king over Syria.”
- Job 40:4-5 “Behold, I am of small account. What will I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth. I have spoken once, and I will not answer; Yes, twice, but I will proceed no further.”
- Proverbs 16:18 Pride goes before destruction, and an arrogant spirit before a fall.
- Proverbs 18:24 A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
- Proverbs 29:23 A man’s pride brings him low, but one of lowly spirit gains honor.
- Jeremiah 10:23 Yahweh, I know that the way of man is not in himself. It is not in man who walks to direct his steps.
- Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?
- Psalms 30:6 As for me, I said in my prosperity, “I shall never be moved.”
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain That doubling of words, setteth out more plainly Peter’s…
That doubling of words, setteth out more plainly Peter’s vehement affirmation.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 26 And when they had sung an hymn, they…
26 And when they had sung an hymn, they went out into the mount of Olives.
27 And Jesus saith unto them, All ye shall be offended because of me this night: for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered.
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28 But after that I am risen, I will go before you into Galilee.
29 But Peter said unto him, Although all shall be offended, yet will not I.
30 And Jesus saith unto him, Verily I say unto thee, That this day, even in this night, before the cock crow twice, thou shalt deny me thrice.
31 But he spake the more vehemently, If I should die with thee, I will not deny thee in any wise. Likewise also said they all.
Ver. 31. I will not deny thee] The Syriac addeth Mari, that is, Domine mi, my God. And this he affirmed, magis ex abundanti. So did Pendleton the apostate, when he said to Sanders the martyr, with greatest vehemence, I will see the uttermost drop of this grease of mine molten away, and the last gobbet of this flesh consumed to ashes, before I will forsake God and his truth. (Acts and Mon.)
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And they came to a place which is named…
And they came to a place which is named Gethsemane,.... At the foot of the Mount of Olives, where the olives, which grew in great plenty on the mount, were pressed: and where our Lord began to be bruised, for our sins:
and be saith to his disciples: to eight of them:
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sit ye here while I shall pray; at some distance from hence; See Gill on Mat 26:36.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 31. If I should] Literally, If it be necessary…
31. If I should] Literally, If it be necessary for me to die with Thee; as Wyclif renders it, “if it bihoue me to dye to gidere with thee.” After this the Lord engaged in earnest conversation with His Apostles, not as at the ordinary Passover on the great events of the Exodus, but on His own approaching departure to the Father and the coming of the Comforter (Joh_14:1-31); of Himself as the true Vine and His disciples as the branches (Joh_15:1-6); of the trials which the Apostles must expect and the assured aid of the Comforter (John 16); and at the close lifting up His eyes to heaven solemnly committed them to the care of the Eternal Father, and dedicated to Him His completed work (John 17). Then the concluding part of the Hallel (Psalms 115-118) was sung, i. e. chanted, and the little company went forth into the darkness towards the Mount of Olives. A perusal of these Psalms will reveal their appropriateness to this solemn occasion.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (31) He spake the more vehemently.—The Greek tense implies…
(31) He spake the more vehemently.—The Greek tense implies frequent and continuous speaking.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain But he spake exeseding vehemently (ekperisswv elalei), If I…
But he spake exeseding vehemently (ekperisswv elalei), If I must die with thee (ean me der), I will not deny thee. The right reading (elalei , imperfect) implies that he kept asserting over and over again. He was, no doubt, sincere in all this, but he had vet to learn his own weakness. St. Hilary says on this, "Peter was so carried away by the fervor of his zeal and love for Christ, that he regarded neither the weakness of his own flesh nor the truth of his Master"s word."
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The Biblical Illustrator 1887 · Public Domain I will not deny Thee in any wise.
Mar_14:31
I will not deny Thee in any wise.
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Peters denial of Christ
I. We may learn from this transaction not to be too forward in our professions, or too confident in our own strength, lest confidence should at last increase the guilt and shame of failure; and in the event of nonperformance, our professions be turned to our reproach. The chief of the apostles mistook the firmness of his own spirit. In the day of peace it is easy to form good resolutions, and to be confident that we shall perform them. To resolve in private and act in public are very different things, requiring very different degrees of firmness, both in exerting the powers of the understanding and in regulating the affections of the heart. Rash resolutions are foolish, and rash vows cannot be innocent. Yet our weakness is itself the decisive proof that vows and resolutions ought to be made. But let them be made as reason and duty require-deliberately not ostentatiously; not so much to be heard as to be kept; not so much to man as to God.
II. To hope the best, and to depend the most upon those whose tempers are not so warm and forward, but mild, and cool, and firm. In St. John we find no forward professions, no hasty declarations of invincible spirit. He was firm and faithful, but meek and unoffending. His zeal united gentleness. Zeal should be with moderation. The passions must not rule the conduct. The feelings of a good man are ruled by his religion. Every thought should be brought into captivity to the obedience of Christ. Without such guidance feeling is bold, forward, and capricious, liable to error, and will involve us in sin; but conviction and principle are steady and permanent; truth and right are forever the same.
III. That if we be surprised into any failure in our duty we may be forgiven upon repentance and reformation. But this great privilege must not be allowed to relax our care, or encourage our presumption. St. Peter delayed his repentance only till he knew his fault. Hand-in-hand with conviction came contrition. (W. Barrow, LL. D.)
Peter and the rest
The text shows St. Peter exercising the supreme influence.
I. Here is Peters undoubted supremacy. History circles around great names. Men are not all original. The apostles could not do without Peter.
II. This supremacy was intellectual, moral, spiritual; not economical, legal, or merely official. His supremacy rose out of qualification. There are no spiritual leaderships which can be irrespective of character. A true man must always influence others powerfully.
III. The value of such characters as that of Peter in the Church. Each age needs men who can call onward and upward because they are beyond and above.
IV. Here is noble purpose and noble feeling coming short in action. The sequel is, they all forsook Him and fled. Not even the grandest human inspirations have staying virtues in them. These must be sought from the Holy Spirit. (The Preachers Monthly.)
Presumption
I stand on a mountain in Colorado six thousand feet high. There is a man standing beneath me who says: I see a peculiar shelving to this rock, and he bends towards it. I say: Stop, you will fall. He says: No danger; I have a steady head and foot, and see a peculiar piece of moss. I say: Stand back; but he says: I am not afraid; and he bends farther and farther, and after a while his head whirls and his feet slip-and the eagles know not that it is the macerated flesh of a man they are picking at, but it is. So I have seen men come to the very verge of New York life, and they look away down in it. They say: Dont be cowardly. Let us go down. They look farther and farther. I warn them to stand back; but Satan comes behind them, and while they are swinging over the verge, pushes them off. People say they were naturally bad. They were not! They were only engaged in exploration. (Dr. Talmage.)
Fatal presumption
The present Eddystone Lighthouse stands very firmly, but that was not the character of the first structure that stood on that dangerous point. There was an eccentric man by the name of Henry Winstanly, who built a very fantastic lighthouse at that point in 1696, and when it was nearly done he felt so confident that it was strong, that he expressed the wish that he might be in it in the roughest hurricane that ever blew in the face of heaven. And he got his wish. One November night, in 1703, he and his workmen were in that light house when there came down the most raging tempest that has ever been known in that region. On the following morning the people came down to see about the lighthouse. Not a vestige of the wall, not a vestige of the men. Only two twisted iron bolts, showing where the lighthouse had stood. So there are men building up their fantastic hopes, and plans, and enterprises, and expectations, thinking they will stand forever, saying: We dont want any of the defences of the gospel. We can stand for ourselves. We are not afraid. We take all the risks and we defy everything; and suddenly the Lord blows upon them and they are gone. Only two things left-a grave and a lost soul. (Dr. Talmage.)
Accumulated sin
Peter, instead of being humbled and made self-distrustful by our Lords warning, as he ought to have been, only heaps up more sin against himself by persisting in contradicting the Lord. Let us take note from this that the child of God, through strength of his corruption, may fall often into the same sin, notwithstanding good means against it.
1. It is a very hard thing to lead people out of themselves. Almost nothing but experience of former falls brings them to see their folly.
2. Till their mind is changed their action will be the same.
3. Weakness of grace causes even the best to fall over and over again into the same sins.
4. The same reason remains still which may move the Lord to leave His children to themselves; to try, excite, humble them, work more serious sorrow, make them more watchful, etc. (Dr. Thomas Taylor.)
Repetition strengthens
Every repetition of sin makes sin the stronger; for as the body, the more it is nourished and fed, the stronger it grows, so with sin in the soul; every new act is an addition of strength till it comes to a habit. Pluck up a twig, then, before it grows up into a plant. Dash out the brains of every sin in infancy. (Dr. Thomas Taylor.)
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