Luke 22:33-34

22:33 But Peter ¹  said to him, “Lord, I am ready to go with you both to prison and to death!” ²  22:34 Jesus replied, ³  “I tell you, Peter, the rooster will not crow ⁴  today until you have denied ⁵  three times that you know me.”

Luke 12:9

12:9 But the one who denies me before men will be denied before God’s angels.

Matthew 10:33

10:33 But whoever denies me before people, I will deny him also before my Father in heaven.

Matthew 26:70

26:70 But he denied it in front of them all: ⁶  “I don’t know what you’re talking about!”

John 18:25

Peter’s Second and Third Denials

18:25 Meanwhile Simon Peter was standing in the courtyard ⁷  warming himself. They said to him, “You aren’t one of his disciples too, are you?” ⁸  Peter ⁹  denied it: “I am not!”

John 18:27

18:27 Then Peter denied it again, and immediately a rooster crowed. ¹⁰ 

Acts 3:13-14

3:13 The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, ¹¹  the God of our forefathers, ¹²  has glorified ¹³  his servant ¹⁴  Jesus, whom you handed over and rejected ¹⁵  in the presence of Pilate after he had decided ¹⁶  to release him. 3:14 But you rejected ¹⁷  the Holy and Righteous One and asked that a man who was a murderer be released to you.

Acts 3:19

3:19 Therefore repent and turn back so that your sins may be wiped out,

Acts 3:2

3:2 And a man lame ¹⁸  from birth ¹⁹  was being carried up, who was placed at the temple gate called “the Beautiful Gate” every day ²⁰  so he could beg for money ²¹  from those going into the temple courts. ²² 

Acts 2:10-12

2:10 Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya near Cyrene, ²³  and visitors from Rome, ²⁴  2:11 both Jews and proselytes, ²⁵  Cretans and Arabs – we hear them speaking in our own languages about the great deeds God has done!” ²⁶  2:12 All were astounded and greatly confused, saying to one another, “What does this mean?”

Acts 2:1

The Holy Spirit and the Day of Pentecost

2:1 Now ²⁷  when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place.

Acts 1:9

1:9 After ²⁸  he had said this, while they were watching, he was lifted up and a cloud hid him from their sight.

[22:33]  ¹ tn Grk “he”; the referent (Peter) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[22:33]  ² sn The confidence Peter has in private (Lord, I am ready…) will wilt under the pressure of the public eye.

[22:34]  ³ tn Grk “he said”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[22:34]  ⁴ sn That is, Peter’s denials will happen before the sun rises.

[22:34]  ⁵ sn Once again, Jesus is quite aware that Peter will deny him. Peter, however, is too nonchalant about the possibility of stumbling.

[26:70]  ⁶ tn Grk “he denied it…saying.” The participle λέγων (legwn) is redundant in English and has not been translated.

[18:25]  ⁷ tn The words “in the courtyard” are not in the Greek text. They are supplied for the benefit of the modern reader, to link this scene to the preceding one in John 18:15-18.

[18:25]  ⁸ tn Questions prefaced with μή (mh) in Greek anticipate a negative answer. This can sometimes be indicated by using a “tag” at the end in English (here the tag is “are you?”).

[18:25]  ⁹ tn Grk “That one denied it and said”; the referent of the pronoun (Peter) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[18:27]  ¹⁰ 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 mss [Ì^37vid,45 ˹] in Matt 26:34) which would have been sounded at 3 a.m.; in this case Jesus would have prophesied a precise time by which the denials would have taken place. For more details see J. H. Bernard, St. John (ICC), 2:604. However, in light of the fact that Mark mentions the rooster crowing twice (Mark 14:72) and in Luke 22:60 the words are reversed (ἐφώνησεν ἀλέκτωρ, efwnhsen alektwr), it is more probable that a real rooster is in view. In any event natural cockcrow would have occurred at approximately 3 a.m. in Palestine at this time of year (March-April) anyway.

[3:13]  ¹¹ tc ‡ The repetition of ὁ θεός (Jo qeos, “God”) before the names of Isaac and Jacob is found in Ì⁷⁴ א C (A D without article) 36 104 1175 pc lat. The omission of the second and third ὁ θεός is supported by B E Ψ 33 1739 Ï pc. The other time that Exod 3:6 is quoted in Acts (7:32) the best witnesses also lack the repeated ὁ θεός, but the three other times this OT passage is quoted in the NT the full form, with the thrice-mentioned θεός, is used (Matt 22:32; Mark 12:26; Luke 20:37). Scribes would be prone to conform the wording here to the LXX; the longer reading is thus most likely not authentic. NA²⁷ has the words in brackets, indicating doubts as to their authenticity.

[3:13]  ¹² tn Or “ancestors”; Grk “fathers.”

[3:13]  ¹³ sn Has glorified. Jesus is alive, raised and active, as the healing illustrates so dramatically how God honors him.

[3:13]  ¹⁴ sn His servant. The term servant has messianic connotations given the context of the promise, the note of suffering, and the titles and functions noted in vv. 14-15.

[3:13]  ¹⁵ tn Or “denied,” “disowned.”

[3:13]  ¹⁶ tn This genitive absolute construction could be understood as temporal (“when he had decided”) or concessive (“although he had decided”).

[3:14]  ¹⁷ tn Or “denied,” “disowned.”

[3:2]  ¹⁸ tn Or “crippled.”

[3:2]  ¹⁹ tn Grk “from his mother’s womb.”

[3:2]  ²⁰ tn BDAG 437 s.v. ἡμέρα 2.c has “every day” for this phrase.

[3:2]  ²¹ tn Grk “alms.” The term “alms” is not in common use today, so what the man expected, “money,” is used in the translation instead. The idea is that of money given as a gift to someone who was poor. Giving alms was viewed as honorable in Judaism (Tob 1:3, 16; 12:8-9; m. Pe’ah 1:1). See also Luke 11:41; 12:33; Acts 9:36; 10:2, 4, 31; 24:17.

[3:2]  ²² tn Grk “the temple.” This is actually a reference to the courts surrounding the temple proper, and has been translated accordingly.

[2:10]  ²³ tn According to BDAG 595 s.v. Λιβύη, the western part of Libya, Libya Cyrenaica, is referred to here (see also Josephus, Ant. 16.6.1 [16.160] for a similar phrase).

[2:10]  ²⁴ map For location see JP4 A1.

[2:11]  ²⁵ sn Proselytes refers to Gentile (i.e., non-Jewish) converts to Judaism.

[2:11]  ²⁶ tn Or “God’s mighty works.” Here the genitive τοῦ θεοῦ (tou qeou) has been translated as a subjective genitive.

[2:1]  ²⁷ tn Grk “And” Here καί (kai) has been translated as “now” to indicate the transition to a new topic. Greek style often begins sentences or clauses with “and,” but English style does not.

[1:9]  ²⁸ tn Grk “And after.” Because of the difference between Greek style, which often begins sentences or clauses with “and,” and English style, which generally does not, καί (kai) has not been translated here.