{"id":905,"date":"2010-06-18T05:00:14","date_gmt":"2010-06-18T11:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=905"},"modified":"2022-01-27T10:31:06","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T16:31:06","slug":"john-1825-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=905","title":{"rendered":"John 18:25-27"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">25 Now Simon Peter stood and warmed himself. Therefore they said to him, &#8220;You are not also one of His disciples, are you?&#8221; He denied it and said, &#8220;I am not!&#8221;<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">26 One of the servants of the high priest, a relative of him whose ear Peter cut off, said, &#8220;Did I not see you in the garden with Him?&#8221;<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">27 Peter then denied again; and immediately a rooster crowed.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3>The other gospel accounts place Peter&#8217;s denials outside the home of Caiaphas. John says it took place outside Annas&#8217; home. It was probably a courtyard shared by both.<\/h3>\n<h3>Verse 25 is a continuation of <a href=\"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=901\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">verse 18<\/span><\/a>.<\/h3>\n<h3>Peter stood with those who arrested Christ, warming himself at a fire. Perhaps someone threw on more coals, causing the flames to flare up, making Peter recognizable.<\/h3>\n<h3>The question (v. 25) again expected a negative answer, making it easy for Peter to lie.<\/h3>\n<h3>him whose ear Peter cut off (v. 26) \u2014 Malchus (<a href=\"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=899\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">John 18:10<\/span><\/a>)<\/h3>\n<h3>Question (v. 26) is straightforward<\/h3>\n<h3>Peter&#8217;s third denial occurred as the rooster crowed \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=823\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">John 13:38<\/span><\/a>. He denied with cursing and swearing (<a href=\"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=3294\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Matthew 26:74<\/span><\/a>; Mark 14:71).<\/h3>\n<h3>Peter did <u>not<\/u> deny who Jesus was, only that he was one of the disciples.<\/h3>\n<h3>The Lord turned and looked at Peter (Luke 22:61) perhaps in accusation or in love \u2014 or both.<\/h3>\n<h3>Most commentaries focus on what Peter did wrong. But perhaps the point is that we will fail but Christ won&#8217;t. The contrast in this passage is between Peter&#8217;s response to questions and Christ&#8217;s response to questions.It is not so much a focus on Peter but on the One who never fails.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>25 Now Simon Peter stood and warmed himself. Therefore they said to him, &#8220;You are not also one of His disciples, are you?&#8221; He denied it and said, &#8220;I am not!&#8221; 26 One of the servants of the high priest, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=905\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-verse-study-gospel-of-john"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905","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=905"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5828,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions\/5828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}