I · personal pronoun — 1st person nominative singular
see
εἴδωeídō
G1492
used only in certain past tenses
thee
σέsé
G4571
thee
in
ἐνen
G1722
"in · preposition
garden
κήπῳkēpō
G2779
a garden · noun — dative singular masculine
with
μετ᾽met᾽
G3326
properly · preposition
him
αὐτοῦ;autou
G846
the reflexive pronoun self · personal pronoun — genitive singular masculine
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).
Cross-references
John 18:1 When Jesus had spoken these words, he went forth with his disciples over the brook Cedron, where was a garden, into the which he entered, an…
John 18:10 Then Simon Peter having a sword drew it, and smote the high priest’s servant, and cut off his right ear. The servant’s name was Malchus.
Matthew 26:73 And after a while came unto him they that stood by, and said to Peter, Surely thou also art one of them; for thy speech bewrayeth thee.
Mark 14:70-71 And he denied it again. And a little after, they that stood by said again to Peter, Surely thou art one of them: for thou art a Galilaean, a…
Luke 22:59-60 And about the space of one hour after another confidently affirmed, saying, Of a truth this fellow also was with him: for he is a Galilæan.
Proverbs 12:19 The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment.
Cross-references from OpenBible.info (CC BY), in the lineage of the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain).
Commentary
Matthew Henry on John 18:13-27
We have here an account of Christ's arraignment before the high priest, and some circumstances that occurred therein which were omitted by the other evangelists; and Peter's denying him, which the other evangelists had given the story of entire by itself, is interwoven with the other passages. The crime laid to his charge having relation to religion, the judges of the spiritual court took it to fall directly under their cognizance. Both Jews and Gentiles seized him, and so both Jews and Gentiles tried and condemned him, for he died for the sins of both. Let us go over the story in order.
I. Having seized him, they led him away to Annas first, before they brought him to the court that was sat…
One of the servants of the high priest, being his kinsman, whose ear Peter cut off, saith, Did not I see thee in the garden with him--No doubt his relationship to Malchus drew attention to the man who smote him, and this enabled him to identify Peter. "Sad reprisals!" [BENGEL]. The other Evangelists make his detection to turn upon his dialect. "After a while ['about the space of one hour after' (Luk 22:59)] came unto him they that stood by and said to Peter, Surely thou also art one of them, for thy speech betrayeth thee" (Mat 26:73). "Thou art a Galilean, and thy speech agreeth thereto" (Mar 14:70; and so Luk 22:59). The Galilean dialect had a more Syrian cast than that of Judea. If Peter h…
Now Annas had sent him, etc. - It has been observed before that the proper place of this verse is immediately after the 13th; and, if it be allowed to stand here, it should be read in a parenthesis, and considered as a recapitulation of what had been before done.
John Gill on John 18:26
One of the servants of the high priest,.... Hearing him so stiffly deny that he was a disciple of Jesus, when he had great reason to believe he was:
being his kinsman, whose ear Peter cut off; a near relation of Malchus, to whom Peter had done this injury; and who was present at the same time, and no doubt took particular notice of him; and the more, because of what he had done to his kinsman:
saith unto him, did not I see thee in the garden with him? as if he should have said, I saw thee with my own eyes along with Jesus, this very night in the garden, beyond Kidron, where he was apprehended, how canst thou deny it? and wilt thou stand in it so confidently, that thou art not one of his di…
The Church Fathers
Then saith "the kinsman of him whose ear Peter cut off, (grieving at what had taken place,) Did I not see thee in the garden?" But neither did the garden bring him to remember what had taken place, nor the great affection which Jesus there had shown by those words, but all these from pressure of anxiety he banished from his mind. But why have the Evangelists with one accord written concerning him? Not as accusing the disciple, but as desiring to teach us, how great an evil it is not to commit all to God, but to trust to one's self. But do thou admire the tender care of his Master, who, though a prisoner and bound, took great forethought for His disciple, raising Peter up, when he was down, by His look, and launching him into a sea of tears.
For it was the bounden duty of the wise Evangelist to make mention of such things, that his hearers might know what even the teachers of the world were in themselves before Christ's Resurrection, and before the Holy Spirit descended upon them; and what they were thereafter, when they had received the grace of the Spirit, Which Christ called power from on high. For any one may see how very jealous they were in assuming virtue; how readily they girded up their loins to follow Christ, and to overcome perils of every sort which they so frequently encountered. But when our Saviour Christ had not yet subdued the power of death, the fear thereof was still stubborn, and altogether invincible; and they who had not yet received the Spirit, nor had their hearts steeled by grace from above, showed that their minds were not yet wholly free from human frailty, and they were not altogether unshaken by the terrors of death. For just as iron, though naturally strong, cannot encounter without injury the harder kinds of stone, if it be not strengthened in the forge; so the soul of man may be buoyed up with unslacking enthusiasm for every thing that is good, but can never be triumphant in the conflicts that so arise, except it be first perfected by the grace of the Spirit of God. Even the disciples, therefore, themselves were frail at first; but, when they had received the Spirit of Almighty God, cast aside their native weakness, and, by communion with Him, attained to exceeding boldness. It was expedient, then, that the frailty of the Saints should be recorded to the praise and glory of God, Who changed their weakness into power, and raised up, like a strong tower, their spirits, which were easily daunted even by slight dangers, and at times broken down by the mere apprehension of suffering. And that which befell a single one, or some few of the Saints, may afford us at the same time a lesson and a consolation. For we are taught thereby, not, through dwelling on our own infirmities inconsiderately, to slacken in God's service, but rather to trust in Him Who is able to make us all strong, and to boast ourselves in His miraculous works and favour shown to us beyond hope.
Dictionary and topics
Court · .COMPOSITION OF, AND MO — .COMPOSITION OF, AND MO
Prisoners · Jesus — Jesus
Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).
John 18:25-27
25. And Simon Peter was standing there and warming, himself. They said therefore to him, Art not thou also one of his discipYes? He denied it? [142] and said, I am not. 26. One of the servants of the high priest, who was a kinsman of him whose ear Peter had cut off, said, Did not I see thee in the garden with him? 27. Then Peter denied it again; [143] and immediately the cock crew.
25. He denied it. How shocking the stupidity of Peter, who, after having denied his Master, not only has no feeling of repentance, but hardens himself by the very indulgence he takes in sinning! If each of them in his turn had asked him, he would not have hesitated to deny his Master a thousand tim…
But Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard; and one of the maidservants came to him, saying: You too were with Jesus the Galilean. But he denied it before them all, saying: I do not know what you are saying. And as he was going out to the gate, another maidservant saw him and said to him there: This man too was with Jesus the Nazarene. And again he denied it with an oath, saying, I do not know the man. And after a little while those who were standing there came and said to Peter: Truly you are one of them, for even your speech makes you plain. Then he began to curse and to swear, saying, I do not know the man. And immediately a cock crowed. And Peter remembered the word of Jesus who had said to him: Before the cock crows, you will deny me three times; and going out he wept most bitterly. Considering Peter's denial more fully, we say that "no one can call Jesus Lord except in the Holy Spirit" (as Paul teaches us), and "the Holy Spirit was not yet then" in men "because Jesus had not yet been glorified" (as John says), and therefore it was not possible that even such a Peter should then confess Jesus. Nor yet was he to be blamed for not confessing Jesus, since to those who confess it is said: "It is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you". But we, since that Spirit of our Father is able to speak in us, and since it is in our power to give "place" in us to the Holy Spirit and not to "the devil", if we deny him, we shall have no excuse. Perhaps, moreover, whoever is in the courtyard of Caiaphas "the chief priest" cannot confess the Lord Jesus unless he has gone out of his courtyard and been made to be outside of every doctrine that is contrary to Jesus and that hands down Jewish traditions—and this not according to the will of the Scriptures, but according to "the commandments and teachings of men". For consider that Peter, sitting outside, separated from Jesus and set in the courtyard of the chief priest, denied Jesus before them all; and again a second time, likewise, being not yet made to be outside beyond the gate, but wishing to go out and not yet having gone out, denied him at the gate; but also a third time, when those who were standing said: Truly you are one of them, and when he began to curse himself and to swear, saying, I do not know the man, he was still not outside. And all these denials were made by him in the night…
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