MATTHEW 26:72 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“And again he denied with an oath, I do not know the man.”
And again he denied it with an oath: I do not know the man. The second denial with an oath: the escalation from the evasive I do not know what you mean to the direct and oath-bound I do not know the man. The oath — the swearing by God that makes the false claim even more serious — is the escalation that Matthew has been preparing for with the Sermon on the Mount's teaching against oaths (Matthew 5:33–37).
Church Fathers on Matthew 26:72
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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