Luke - 22:58



58 After a little while someone else saw him, and said, "You also are one of them!" But Peter answered, "Man, I am not!"

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Explanation and meaning of Luke 22:58.

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And after a little while another saw him, and said, Thou art also of them. And Peter said, Man, I am not.
And after a little while, another seeing him, said: Thou also art one of them. But Peter said: O man, I am not.
And after a short time another seeing him said, And thou art of them. But Peter said, Man, I am not.
And after a little, another having seen him, said, 'And thou art of them!' and Peter said, 'Man, I am not.'
Shortly afterwards a man saw him and said, "You, too, are one of them." "No, man, I am not," said Peter.
And after a little time, another saw him and said, You are one of them; and he said, Man, I am not.

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And after a little while,.... A quarter, or half an hour after, within an hour at least:
another saw him; not another maid, but another man, as appears from the answer; though the Syriac and Persic versions leave out the word man, it may be because Matthew and Mark represent the person, on account of whose words Peter denied Christ a second time, to be another maid; but then it is to be observed, that that maid did not speak directly to Peter, as this person did, but to those that were present, or that stood by: and one of these taking the hint from her, looked at him, and said,
thou art also of them; of the disciples of Jesus of Nazareth; thou belongest to that company; thou art certainly one of his followers;
and Peter said, man, I am not. This was after he had been out into the porch, and had mused upon it, and was come in again, but had not courage enough to withstand the temptation, and especially now, being attacked by a man; and so a second time denies that Christ was his master, or that he was a disciple of his.

Another man saw him and said - Observe here, in order to reconcile the four evangelists, that divers persons concurred in charging Peter with belonging to Christ. The maid that led him in, afterward seeing him at the fire, first put the question to him, and then positively affirmed, that he was with Christ. Another maid accused him to the standers by, and gave occasion to the man here mentioned, to renew the charge against him, which caused the second denial. Others of the company took notice of his being a Galilean, and were seconded by the kinsman of Malchus, who affirmed he had seen him in the garden. And this drew on the third denial.

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