Mat 26:69-75, Mar 14:66-72, Luk 22:54-62, Joh 18:17, 25-27, 1Cor 10:12 | TSK | STEP

a maid.[Paidiske ,] "the maid," and not the one mentioned in ver. 66, but [allos ,] another, as Matthew states, (ch. 26:71,) she who was the janitrix, or door-keeper.

Joh 18:17

and began.

38; Lu 22:58; Joh 18:25; Ga 6:1

a little.

Mt 26:73,74; Lu 22:59,60; Joh 18:26,27

for.

Jud 12:6; Ac 2:7

and thy.[He lalia sou ,] "Thy dialect," or mode of speech. From various examples produced by Lightfoot, and Schoetgen, it appears that the Galileans used a very corrupt dialect and pronunciation; interchanging the gutturals, and other letters, and so blending or dividing words as to render them unintelligible, or convey a contrary sense. Thus when a Galilean would have asked, [immar le-mahn,] "whose is this lamb," he pronounced the first word so confusedly that it could not be known whether he meant [chamor, ,] "an ass," [chamar, ,] "wine," [amar, ,] "wool," or [immar, ,] "a lamb." A certain woman intending to say to a judge, "My lord, I had a picture which they stole; and it was so great, that if you had been placed in it, your feet would not have touched the ground," so spoiled it by her pronunciation, that her words meant, "Sir slave, I had a beam, and they stole thee away; and it was so great, that if they had hung thee on it, thy feet would not have touched the ground."

2Ki 8:12-15; 10:32; Jer 17:9; 1Co 10:12

the second.

30,68; Mt 26:34,74

Peter.

2Sa 24:10; Ps 119:59,60; Jer 31:18-20; Eze 16:63; 36:31

Lu 15:17-19; 22:60

when he thought thereon, he wept. or, he wept abundantly, orhe began to weep.

Eze 7:16; Mt 26:75; Lu 22:62; 2Co 7:10

Luke 22:54-62

took.Our blessed Lord before his death passed another examination. One was before the Jewish Sanhedrim, whose proper province it was to try such as were accused as false prophets or blasphemers. This was a kind of ecclesiastical court. The other, with which the next chapter opens, was before Pilate, the Roman governor of Judea at that time; he principally took cognizance of criminal things, such especially as concerned the peace of the country, considered as part of the Roman empire.

Mt 26:57,58; Mr 14:53,54; Joh 18:12-17,24

And Peter.

33,34; 2Ch 32:31

had.

44; Mt 26:69; Mr 14:66; Joh 18:17,18

Peter.

Ps 1:1; 26:4,5; 28:3; Pr 9:6; 13:20; 1Co 15:33; 2Co 6:15-17

a certain maid.

Mt 26:69; Mr 14:6,17,66-68; Joh 18:17

he denied.

33,34; 12:9; Mt 10:33; 26:70; Joh 18:25,27; Ac 3:13,14,19

2Ti 2:10-12; 1Jo 1:9

another.A maid challenged Peter in the second instance, according to Matthew and Mark; yet here it is said [heteros ,] another (man) and he also answers to a man. But [heteros ,] as Wetstein shows, may be, and is in innumerable instances applied to a female; and Matthew says, "she said to them that were there," and Mark, "she began to say to them that stood by." So that the maid gave the information to those around her, and some man charged Peter with it. Probably several joined in the accusation, though he answered to an individual, for John says, "They said unto him," etc.

Mt 26:71,72; Mr 14:69,70; Joh 18:25

confidently.

Mt 26:73,74; Mr 14:69,70; Joh 18:26,27

the cock.

34; Mt 26:74,75; Mr 14:71,72; Joh 18:27

turned.

10:41; Mr 5:30

looked.

Job 33:27; Isa 57:15-18; Jer 31:18-20; Ho 11:8; Ac 5:31

And Peter.

Eze 16:63; 36:31,32; Eph 2:11; Re 2:5

Before.