Discovery BoxMatthew 26:69-75
Context26:69 Now Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard. A 1 slave girl 2 came to him and said, “You also were with Jesus the Galilean.” 26:70 But he denied it in front of them all: 3 “I don’t know what you’re talking about!” 26:71 When 4 he went out to the gateway, another slave girl 5 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 6 a little while, those standing there came up to Peter and said, “You really are one of them too – even your accent 7 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. 8 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. 9
Matthew 26:2
Context26:2 “You know that after two days the Passover is coming, and the Son of Man will be handed over 10 to be crucified.” 11
Matthew 6:15
Context6:15 But if you do not forgive others, your Father will not forgive you your sins.
Mark 14:38
Context14:38 Stay awake and pray that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
Mark 14:66-72
Context14:66 Now 12 while Peter was below in the courtyard, one of the high priest’s slave girls 13 came by. 14:67 When she saw Peter warming himself, she looked directly at him and said, “You also were with that Nazarene, Jesus.” 14:68 But he denied it: 14 “I don’t even understand what you’re talking about!” 15 Then 16 he went out to the gateway, and a rooster crowed. 17 14:69 When the slave girl saw him, she began again to say to the bystanders, “This man is one of them.” 14:70 But he denied it again. A short time later the bystanders again said to Peter, “You must be 18 one of them, because you are also a Galilean.” 14:71 Then he began to curse, and he swore with an oath, “I do not know this man you are talking about!” 14:72 Immediately a rooster 19 crowed a second time. Then 20 Peter remembered what Jesus had said to him: “Before a rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times.” And he broke down and wept. 21
Luke 22:54-61
Context22:54 Then 22 they arrested 23 Jesus, 24 led him away, and brought him into the high priest’s house. 25 But Peter was following at a distance. 22:55 When they had made a fire in the middle of the courtyard and sat down together, Peter sat down among them. 22:56 Then a slave girl, 26 seeing him as he sat in the firelight, stared at him and said, “This man was with him too!” 22:57 But Peter 27 denied it: “Woman, 28 I don’t know 29 him!” 22:58 Then 30 a little later someone else 31 saw him and said, “You are one of them too.” But Peter said, “Man, 32 I am not!” 22:59 And after about an hour still another insisted, 33 “Certainly this man was with him, because he too is a Galilean.” 34 22:60 But Peter said, “Man, I don’t know what you’re talking about!” At that moment, 35 while he was still speaking, a rooster crowed. 36 22:61 Then 37 the Lord turned and looked straight at Peter, and Peter remembered the word of the Lord, 38 how he had said to him, “Before a rooster crows today, you will deny me three times.”
John 18:25-27
Context18:25 Meanwhile Simon Peter was standing in the courtyard 39 warming himself. They said to him, “You aren’t one of his disciples too, are you?” 40 Peter 41 denied it: “I am not!” 18:26 One of the high priest’s slaves, 42 a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, 43 said, “Did I not see you in the orchard 44 with him?” 45 18:27 Then Peter denied it again, and immediately a rooster crowed. 46
John 18:2
Context18:2 (Now Judas, the one who betrayed him, knew the place too, because Jesus had met there many times 47 with his disciples.) 48
John 4:16-17
Context4:16 He 49 said to her, “Go call your husband and come back here.” 50 4:17 The woman replied, 51 “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “Right you are when you said, 52 ‘I have no husband,’ 53
[26:69] 1 tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated.
[26:69] 2 tn The Greek term here is παιδίσκη (paidiskh), referring to a slave girl or slave woman.
[26:70] 3 tn Grk “he denied it…saying.” The participle λέγων (legwn) is redundant in English and has not been translated.
[26:71] 5 tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.
[26:71] 6 tn The words “slave girl” are not in the Greek text, but are implied by the feminine singular form ἄλλη (allh).
[26:73] 7 tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.
[26:73] 8 tn Grk “your speech.”
[26:74] 9 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
[26:75] 11 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.
[26:2] 13 tn Or “will be delivered up.”
[26:2] 14 sn See the note on crucified in 20:19.
[14:66] 15 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “now” to indicate the transition to a new topic.
[14:66] 16 tn The Greek term here is παιδίσκη (paidiskh), referring to a slave girl or slave woman.
[14:68] 17 tn Grk “he denied it, saying.” The participle λέγων (legwn) is redundant in English and has not been translated.
[14:68] 18 tn Grk “I do not know or understand what you are saying.” In the translation this is taken as a hendiadys (a figure of speech where two terms express a single meaning, usually for emphatic reasons).
[14:68] 19 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.
[14:68] 20 tc Several important witnesses (א B L W Ψ* 579 892 2427 pc) lack the words “and a rooster crowed.” The fact that such good and early Alexandrian witnesses lack these words makes this textual problem difficult to decide, especially because the words receive support from other witnesses, some of which are fairly decent (A C D Θ Ψc 067 Ë1,13 33 [1424] Ï lat). The omission could have been intentional on the part of some Alexandrian scribes who wished to bring this text in line with the other Gospel accounts that only mention a rooster crowing once (Matt 26:74; Luke 22:60; John 18:27). The insertion could be an attempt to make the fulfillment of Jesus’ prophecy in 14:30 more explicit. Internally, the words “and a rooster crowed” fit Mark’s Gospel here, not only in view of 14:30, “before a rooster crows twice,” but also in view of the mention of “a second time” in 14:71 (a reading which is much more textually secure). Nevertheless, a decision is difficult.
[14:70] 19 tn Grk “Truly you are.”
[14:72] 21 tn This occurrence of the word ἀλέκτωρ (alektwr, “rooster”) is anarthrous and consequently may not point back explicitly to the rooster which had crowed previously in v. 68. The reason for the anarthrous construction is most likely to indicate generically that some rooster crowed. Further, the translation of ἀλέκτωρ as an indefinite noun retains the subtlety of the Greek in only hinting at the Lord’s prediction v. 30. See also NAB, TEV, NASB.
[14:72] 22 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.
[14:72] 23 tn Grk “he wept deeply.”
[22:54] 23 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.
[22:54] 24 tn Or “seized” (L&N 37.109).
[22:54] 25 tn Grk “he”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
[22:54] 26 sn Putting all the gospel accounts together, there is a brief encounter with Annas (brought him into the high priest’s house, here and John 18:13, where Annas is named); the meeting led by Caiaphas (Matt 26:57-68 = Mark 14:53-65; and then a Sanhedrin meeting (Matt 27:1; Mark 15:1; Luke 22:66-71). These latter two meetings might be connected and apparently went into the morning.
[22:56] 25 tn The Greek term here is παιδίσκη (paidiskh), referring to a slave girl or slave woman.
[22:57] 27 tn Grk “he denied it, saying.” The referent (Peter) has been specified in the translation for clarity. The participle λέγων (legwn) is redundant and has not been translated.
[22:57] 28 sn Woman was a polite form of address (see BDAG 208-9 s.v. γυνή), similar to “Madam” or “Ma’am” used in English in different regions.
[22:57] 29 sn The expression “I do not know him” had an idiomatic use in Jewish ban formulas in the synagogue and could mean, “I have nothing to do with him.”
[22:58] 29 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.
[22:58] 30 sn In Mark 14:69, the same slave girl made the charge. So apparently Peter was being identified by a variety of people.
[22:58] 31 tn Here and in v. 60 “Man” is used as a neutral form of address to a stranger.
[22:59] 31 tn Grk “insisted, saying.” The participle λέγων (legwn) is redundant in English and has not been translated here.
[22:59] 32 sn According to Mark 14:70 it was Peter’s accent that gave him away as a Galilean.
[22:60] 33 tn Grk “And immediately.” Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.
[22:60] 34 tn A real rooster crowing is probably in view here (rather than the Roman trumpet call known as gallicinium), in part due to the fact that Mark 14:72 mentions the rooster crowing twice. See the discussion at Matt 26:74.
[22:61] 35 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.
[22:61] 36 tn “The word of the Lord” is a technical expression in OT literature, often referring to a divine prophetic utterance (e.g., Gen 15:1, Isa 1:10, Jonah 1:1). In the NT it occurs 15 times: 3 times as ῥῆμα τοῦ κυρίου (rJhma tou kuriou; here and in Acts 11:16, 1 Pet 1:25) and 12 times as λόγος τοῦ κυρίου (logo" tou kuriou; Acts 8:25; 13:44, 48, 49; 15:35, 36; 16:32; 19:10, 20; 1 Thess 1:8, 4:15; 2 Thess 3:1). As in the OT, this phrase focuses on the prophetic nature and divine origin of what has been said. Because of its technical nature the expression has been retained in the translation in preference to a smoother rendering like “remembered what the Lord had said” (cf. TEV, NLT).
[18:25] 37 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] 38 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] 39 tn Grk “That one denied it and said”; the referent of the pronoun (Peter) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
[18:26] 39 tn See the note on the word “slaves” in 4:51.
[18:26] 40 sn This incident is recounted in v. 10.
[18:26] 42 tn This question, prefaced with οὐκ (ouk) in Greek, anticipates a positive answer.
[18:27] 41 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
[18:2] 44 sn This is a parenthetical note by the author.
[4:16] 45 tc Most witnesses have “Jesus” here, either with the article (אc C2 D L Ws Ψ 086 Ï lat) or without (א* A Θ Ë1,13 al), while several important and early witnesses lack the name (Ì66,75 B C* 33vid pc). It is unlikely that scribes would have deliberately expunged the name of Jesus from the text here, especially since it aids the reader with the flow of the dialogue. Further, that the name occurs both anarthrously and with the article suggests that it was a later addition. (For similar arguments, see the tc note on “woman” in 4:11).
[4:16] 46 tn Grk “come here” (“back” is implied).
[4:17] 47 tn Grk “answered and said to him.”
[4:17] 48 tn Grk “Well have you said.”
[4:17] 49 tn The word order in Jesus’ reply is reversed from the woman’s original statement. The word “husband” in Jesus’ reply is placed in an emphatic position.
