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Texts -- John 18:25-27 (NET)

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Peter’s Second and Third Denials
18:25 Meanwhile Simon Peter was standing in the courtyard warming himself. They said to him , “You aren’t one of his disciples too, are you ?” Peter denied it : “I am not !” 18:26 One of the high priest’s slaves , a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off , said , “Did I not see you in the orchard with him ?” 18:27 Then Peter denied it again , and immediately a rooster crowed .

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  • PETER, SIMON

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  • Court

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  • Jesus, The Christ

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  • Peter

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  • COHORT

    [isbe] COHORT - ko'-hort: In the Revised Version, margin of Mt 27:27; Mk 15:16; Jn 18:3,12; Acts 10:1; 21:31; 27:1, the translation of speira (the King James Version and the Revised Version (British and American), "band"); the tent...

  • JESUS CHRIST, 4E2

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  • Prisoners

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  • Priest

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  • Cowardice

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  • OSTRACA

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  • EAR

    [isbe] EAR - er ('ozen; ous, otion, the latter word (literally, "earlet") in all the Gospels only used of the ear of the high priest's servant, which was cut off by Peter: Mt 26:51; Mk 14:47; Lk 22:51 (not 22:50); Jn 18:10,26): (1)...

  • GARDEN

    [isbe] GARDEN - gar'-d'-n (gan, gannah, ginnah; kepos): The Arabic jannah (diminutive, jannainah), like the Hebrew gannah, literally, "a covered or hidden place," denotes in the mind of the dweller in the East something more than t...

  • KINSMAN; KINSWOMAN

    [isbe] KINSMAN; KINSWOMAN - kinz'-man, kinz'-woom-an: Most frequently of the go'-el, the one who had a right to "redeem"; referring to the custom of avenging the blood of a slain kinsman; hence, a blood relative (Nu 5:8; Ruth 2:20;...

  • MALCHUS

    [isbe] MALCHUS - mal'-kus (Malchos, from melekh, i.e. "counselor" or "king"): The name of the servant of the high priest Caiaphas whose right ear was smitten off by Simon Peter at the arrest of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane (co...

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