{"id":3294,"date":"2014-07-12T08:37:42","date_gmt":"2014-07-12T14:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=3294"},"modified":"2025-07-15T10:42:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T16:42:18","slug":"matthew-2669-75","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=3294","title":{"rendered":"Matthew 26:69-75"},"content":{"rendered":"

69\u00a0<\/sup>Now Peter sat outside in the courtyard. And a servant girl came to him, saying, \u201cYou also were with Jesus of Galilee.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

70\u00a0<\/sup>But he denied it before them all, saying, \u201cI do not know what you are saying.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

71\u00a0<\/sup>And when he had gone out to the gateway, another girl saw him and said to those who were there, \u201cThis fellow also was with Jesus of Nazareth.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

72\u00a0<\/sup>But again he denied with an oath, \u201cI do not know the Man!\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

73\u00a0<\/sup>And a little later those who stood by came up and said to Peter, \u201cSurely you also are one of them, for your speech betrays you.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

74\u00a0<\/sup>Then he began to curse and swear, saying, \u201cI do not know the Man!\u201d Immediately a rooster crowed.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

75\u00a0<\/sup>And Peter remembered the word of Jesus who had said to him, \u201cBefore the rooster crows, you will deny Me three times.\u201d So he went out and wept bitterly.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

This account also appears in Mark 14:66-72<\/span><\/a>; Luke 22:54-62; John 18:15-18<\/span><\/a>, 25-27<\/span><\/a>.<\/h3>\n

courtyard (v.69) \u2014 in the palace courtyard. The trials before Annas and Caiaphas were in the buildings that surrounded it.<\/h3>\n

gateway (v.71) \u2014 the passageway from the courtyard into the street<\/h3>\n

The palace or court of the high priest no doubt was constructed in the usual way. A gated porch admitted to a central courtyard on one side of which was the palace of Annas, and on the other side the palace of Caiaphas. Opposite the porch a raised columned pavement formed an audience chamber. Here Christ would stand as a prisoner before the high priest, and thus Peter was enabled to see Him and He to see Peter (Luke 22:1). \u2014 Williams, page 727.<\/span><\/h3>\n

your speech betrays you (v.73) \u2014 his Galilean accent<\/h3>\n

curse and swear (v.74) \u2014 perhaps profanity, or maybe calling down death upon himself if he were lying<\/h3>\n

Peter remembered (v.75) \u2014 The Lord turned (from where He was on the balcony) and looked at Peter (Luke 22:61).<\/h3>\n

The Lord’s look was probably not one of judgment but of sadness and love. When He warned Peter of his denials, He told him:<\/h3>\n

\u201cSimon, Simon! Indeed, Satan has asked for you, that he may sift you as wheat. But I have prayed for you, that your faith should not fail; and when you have returned to Me, strengthen your brethren” (Luke 22:31-32).<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

Peter failed, but his faith did not. He sinned, but his salvation was never in question.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

69\u00a0Now Peter sat outside in the courtyard. And a servant girl came to him, saying, \u201cYou also were with Jesus of Galilee.\u201d 70\u00a0But he denied it before them all, saying, \u201cI do not know what you are saying.\u201d 71\u00a0And when … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-matthew"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3294"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9339,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3294\/revisions\/9339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}