26:69 Now Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard. A 13 slave girl 14 came to him and said, “You also were with Jesus the Galilean.” 26:70 But he denied it in front of them all: 15 “I don’t know what you’re talking about!” 26:71 When 16 he went out to the gateway, another slave girl 17 saw him and said to the people there, “This man was with Jesus the Nazarene.” 26:72 He denied it again with an oath, “I do not know the man!” 26:73 After 18 a little while, those standing there came up to Peter and said, “You really are one of them too – even your accent 19 gives you away!” 26:74 At that he began to curse, and he swore with an oath, “I do not know the man!” At that moment a rooster crowed. 20 26:75 Then Peter remembered what Jesus had said: “Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.” And he went outside and wept bitterly. 21
1 tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated.
2 tn Or “Messiah”; both “Christ” (Greek) and “Messiah” (Hebrew and Aramaic) mean “one who has been anointed.”
3 sn An allusion to Ps 110:1. This is a claim that Jesus shares authority with God in heaven. Those present may have thought they were his judges, but, in fact, the reverse was true.
4 sn The expression the right hand of the Power is a circumlocution for referring to God. Such indirect references to God were common in 1st century Judaism out of reverence for the divine name.
5 sn An allusion to Dan 7:13 (see also Matt 24:30).
6 tn Grk “the high priest tore his clothes, saying.”
7 tn Grk “Behold now.” The Greek word ἰδού (idou) has not been translated because it has no exact English equivalent here, but adds interest and emphasis (BDAG 468 s.v. 1).
8 tn Grk “What do you think?”
9 tn Grk “answering, they said.” This is somewhat redundant and has been simplified in the translation. Here δέ (de) has not been translated.
10 tn Grk “he is guilty of death.” L&N 88.313 states, “pertaining to being guilty and thus deserving some particular penalty – ‘guilty and deserving, guilty and punishable by.’ οἱ δὲ ἀποκριθέντες εἶπαν, ᾿Ενοχος θανάτου ἐστίν ‘they answered, He is guilty and deserves death’ Mt 26:66.”
11 tn Or “Messiah”; both “Christ” (Greek) and “Messiah” (Hebrew and Aramaic) mean “one who has been anointed.”
12 tn Grk “Who is the one who hit you?”
13 tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated.
14 tn The Greek term here is παιδίσκη (paidiskh), referring to a slave girl or slave woman.
15 tn Grk “he denied it…saying.” The participle λέγων (legwn) is redundant in English and has not been translated.
16 tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.
17 tn The words “slave girl” are not in the Greek text, but are implied by the feminine singular form ἄλλη (allh).
18 tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.
19 tn Grk “your speech.”
20 tn It seems most likely that this refers to a real rooster crowing, although a number of scholars have suggested that “cockcrow” is a technical term referring to the trumpet call which ended the third watch of the night (from midnight to 3 a.m.). This would then be a reference to the Roman gallicinium (ἀλεκτοροφωνία, alektorofwnia; the term is used in Mark 13:35 and is found in some
21 sn When Peter went out and wept bitterly it shows he really did not want to fail here and was deeply grieved that he had.