MATTHEW 26:74 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Then began he to curse and to swear, saying, I know not the man. And immediately the cock crew.”
Then he began to invoke a curse on himself and to swear: I do not know the man. And immediately the rooster crowed. The third denial with self-cursing: the most extreme form of the oath, invoking divine punishment on himself if he is lying. The immediate rooster crow is the fulfillment of Jesus' prediction (verse 34).
Church Fathers on Matthew 26:74
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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