MATTHEW 26:70 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“But he denied before them all, saying, I know not what thou sayest.”
But he denied it before them all, saying: I do not know what you mean. The first denial: I do not know what you mean. The denial before them all communicates the public character of the failure that Peter had declared impossible (verse 35). The I do not know what you mean is the evasive denial — not yet the direct I do not know the man of verse 74.
Church Fathers on Matthew 26:70
Among the other insults offered to our Lord was the threefold denial of Peter, which the several Evangelists relate in different order. Luke puts Peter’s trial first, and the ill-usage of the Lord after that; Matthew and Mark reverse the order.
'Peter sat without,' that he might see the event, and not excite suspicion by any approach to Jesus.
And he, who, when he saw his Master laid hands on, drew his sword and cut off the ear, now when he sees Him enduring such insults becomes a denier, and cannot withstand the taunts of a mean servant girl.
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