Matthew Chapter 26 verse 74 Holy Bible
Then began he to curse and to swear, I know not the man. And straightway the cock crew.
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Then with curses and oaths he said, I have no knowledge of the man. And straight away there came the cry of a cock.
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Then he began to curse and to swear, I know not the man. And immediately [the] cock crew.
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Then began he to curse and to swear, saying, I know not the man. And immediately the cock crew.
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Then he began to curse and to swear, "I don't know the man!" Immediately the rooster crowed.
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Then began he to anathematise, and to swear -- `I have not known the man;' and immediately did a cock crow,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 74. - To curse and to swear. Peter fortifies this, his third denial, by imprecating curses on himself (καταθεματίζειν) if he spake not the truth, and again (ver. 72) confirming his assertion by a solemn oath. There is a certain gradation in his denials: he first simply asserts; he then asserts with an oath; lastly, he adds curses to his oath. "One temptation unresisted seldom fails to be followed by another; a second and greater infidelity is the punishment of the first, and often the cause of a third. Peter joins perjury to infidelity. Deplorable progress of infidelity and blindness in an apostle in so short a time, only out of fear of some under servants, and in respect of a Master whom he had acknowledged very God. He might possibly have proceeded even as far as Judas, had God left him any longer to himself" (Quesnel). Immediately the cock crew. This was the second crowing (Mark 14:72); the first had been heard at the first denial (Mark 14:68).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(74) To curse and to swear.--We may infer from the two words that he used some common formula of execration, such as, e.g., "God do so to me and more also" (1Kings 19:2; 1Kings 20:10), as well as the oath-formula, "By Heaven," or "By the Temple."Immediately the cock crew.--St. Mark alone records the first cock-crow. The Greek has no article; "a cock crew." We find from Mark 13:35 that "cock-crowing" had become a familiar phrase, as with us, for the earliest hour of dawn.
