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MARK 14:71 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
Mark 14:70Mark 14:72
“But he began to curse and to swear, saying, I know not this man of whom ye speak.”
He began to call down curses, and he swore to them, I don't know this man you're talking about — the third denial is the most emphatic: cursing (possibly calling curses on himself if he is lying) and swearing (invoking God as witness). The escalation from I don't know to I don't understand to I don't know this man communicates the progressive depth of the denial. This man is as far as Peter can get from the you are the Messiah declaration of 8:29.

Church Fathers on Mark 14:71

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
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