Mark 14:68 — Community Reflections

MARK 14:68 — KING JAMES VERSION 0

“But he denied, saying, I know not, neither understand I what thou sayest. And he went out into the porch; and the cock crew.”

But he denied it. I don't know or understand what you're talking about, he said, and went out into the entryway. And the rooster crowed — the first denial is a double denial: I don't know and I don't understand — both a denial of the relationship and a denial of comprehension. The rooster crowed: the first of the two crows predicted in verse 30.

Church Fathers on Mark 14:68

Concerning the temptation of Peter, which happened during the injuries mentioned, all the Evangelists do not speak in the same order. For Luke first relates the temptation of Peter, then these injuries of the Lord; but John begins to speak of the temptation of Peter, and then puts in some things concerning our Lord’s ill-treatment, and adds, that He was sent from there to Caiaphas the High Priest, and then he goes back to unfold the temptation of Peter, which he had begun.
Augustine · 4th century

But what can be meant by his being first recognized by a woman, when men were more able to know him, if it be not that that sex might be seen to sin in the death of our Lord, and that sex be redeemed by His Passion?
Bede · 8th century

Peter when he had not the Spirit yielded and lost courage at the voice of a girl, though with the Spirit he was not afraid before princes and kings.
Pseudo-Jerome · 5th century

Read all 10 entries in the readerCatena Aurea · St. Thomas Aquinas, tr. J. H. Newman · public domain

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