John 18:27

Contemporary English Version

Once more Peter denied it, and right then a rooster crowed.

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
But again Peter said, "No, I was not with him!" As soon as he said this, a rooster crowed.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Peter denyed it agayne: and immediatly the cocke crewe.

Hebrew Names Version
Kefa therefore denied again, and immediately the rooster crowed.

International Standard Version
Peter again denied it, and immediately a rooster crowed.Matthew 26:74; Mark 14:72; Luke 22:60; John 13:38;">[xr]

New American Standard Bible
Peter then denied it again, and immediately a rooster crowed.

New Century Version
Again Peter said it wasn't true. At once a rooster crowed.

Update Bible Version
Peter therefore denied again: and right away the rooster crowed.

Webster's Bible Translation
Peter then denied again, and immediately the cock crowed.

English Standard Version
Peter again denied it, and at once a rooster crowed.

World English Bible
Peter therefore denied again, and immediately the rooster crowed.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Peter denied again, and immediately the cock crew.

Weymouth's New Testament
Once more Peter denied it, and immediately a cock crowed.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Petre eftsoone denyede, and anoon the cok crew.

English Revised Version
Peter therefore denied again: and straightway the cock crew.

Berean Standard Bible
Peter denied it once more, and immediately a rooster crowed.

Amplified Bible
So Peter denied it again, and immediately a rooster crowed.

American Standard Version
Peter therefore denied again: and straightway the cock crew.

Bible in Basic English
Then again Peter said, No. And straight away a cock gave its cry.

Complete Jewish Bible
So again Kefa denied it, and instantly a rooster crowed.

Darby Translation
Peter denied therefore again, and immediately [the] cock crew.

Etheridge Translation
And again Shemun denied. And in the same hour the cock crowed.

Murdock Translation
And again Simon denied: and at that moment the cock crew.

King James Version (1611)
Peter then denied againe, and immediatly the cocke crew.

New Living Translation
Again Peter denied it. And immediately a rooster crowed.

New Life Bible
Again Peter lied and said he did not know Jesus. At once a rooster crowed.

New Revised Standard
Again Peter denied it, and at that moment the cock crowed.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Peter then denied againe, and immediatly the cocke crewe.

George Lamsa Translation
Simon again denied; and at that very hour the cock crew.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Again, therefore, Peter denied. And, straightway, a cock crew.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Again therefore Peter denied: and immediately the cock crew.

Revised Standard Version
Peter again denied it; and at once the cock crowed.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Peter therefore denyed againe: And immediatly the Cocke crewe.

Good News Translation
Again Peter said "No"—and at once a rooster crowed.

Christian Standard Bible®
Peter denied it again. Immediately a rooster crowed.

King James Version
Peter then denied again: and immediately the cock crew.

Lexham English Bible
So Peter denied it again, and immediately a rooster crowed.

Literal Translation
Then again Peter denied, and immediately a cock crowed.

Young's Literal Translation
again, therefore, Peter denied, and immediately a cock crew.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Then Peter denyed agayne. And immediatly the cock crew.

Mace New Testament (1729)
but Peter denied this too, and immediately the cock crew.

THE MESSAGE
Again, Peter denied it. Just then a rooster crowed.

New English Translation
Then Peter denied it again, and immediately a rooster crowed.

New King James Version
Peter then denied again; and immediately a rooster crowed.

Simplified Cowboy Version
Pete denied knowing Jesus a third time. At that moment, a rooster began to crow.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Peter then denied it again, and immediately a rooster crowed.

Legacy Standard Bible
Peter then denied it again, and immediately a rooster crowed.

Contextual Overview

¹³ They took him first to Annas, who was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, the high priest that year. ¹⁴ This was the same Caiaphas who had told the Jewish leaders, "It is better if one person dies for the people." ¹⁵ Simon Peter and another disciple followed Jesus. That disciple knew the high priest, and he followed Jesus into the courtyard of the high priest's house. ¹⁶ Peter stayed outside near the gate. But the other disciple came back out and spoke to the girl at the gate. She let Peter go in, ¹⁷ but asked him, "Aren't you one of that man's followers?" "No, I am not!" Peter answered. ¹⁸ It was cold, and the servants and temple police had made a charcoal fire. They were warming themselves around it, when Peter went over and stood near the fire to warm himself. ¹⁹ The high priest questioned Jesus about his followers and his teaching. ²⁰ But Jesus told him, "I have spoken freely in front of everyone. And I have always taught in our meeting places and in the temple, where all of our people come together. I have not said anything in secret. ²¹ Why are you questioning me? Why don't you ask the people who heard me? They know what I have said." ²² As soon as Jesus said this, one of the temple police hit him and said, "That's no way to talk to the high priest!"

Bible Verse Review
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and: John 13:38, Matthew 26:34, Matthew 26:74, Matthew 26:75, Mark 14:30, Mark 14:68, Mark 14:71, Mark 14:72, Luke 22:34, Luke 22:60-62

Reciprocal: Matthew 26:73 - Surely Mark 14:70 - a little Luke 22:57 - he denied Luke 22:59 - confidently John 21:17 - the third

Cross-References

Genesis 2:7
The Lord God took a handful of soil and made a man. God breathed life into the man, and the man started breathing.

Genesis 3:19
You will have to sweat to earn a living; you were made out of soil, and you will once again turn into soil."

Genesis 18:1
One hot summer afternoon Abraham was sitting by the entrance to his tent near the sacred trees of Mamre, when the Lord appeared to him.

Genesis 18:2
Abraham looked up and saw three men standing nearby. He quickly ran to meet them, bowed with his face to the ground,

Genesis 18:6
Abraham quickly went to his tent and said to Sarah, "Hurry! Get a large sack of flour and make some bread."

Genesis 18:8
He then served his guests some yogurt and milk together with the meat. While they were eating, he stood near them under the trees,

Genesis 18:30
Abraham said, "Please don't be angry, Lord , if I ask you what you will do if there are only thirty good people in the city." "If I find thirty," the Lord replied, "I still won't destroy it."

Genesis 18:32
Finally, Abraham said, "Please don't get angry, Lord , if I speak just once more. Suppose you find only ten good people there." "For the sake of ten good people," the Lord told him, "I still won't destroy the city."

Ezra 9:6
and prayed: I am much too ashamed to face you, Lord God. Our sins and our guilt have swept over us like a flood that reaches up to the heavens.

Job 4:19
Humans are formed from clay and are fragile as moths, so what chance do you have?

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Peter then denied again,.... A third time, as the Ethiopic version renders it; and that, according to other evangelists, with cursing and swearing; for now he was more affrighted than before, lest should he be taken up, and it be proved upon him, that he was the person that cut off Malchus's ear, he should be sentenced to a fine, or it may be some capital punishment. The fine for plucking a man's ears, and which some understand of plucking them off, was four hundred "zuzim" s, or, pence; which, as they answer to Roman pence, amount to twelve pounds ten shillings; a sum of money Peter perhaps could not have raised, without great difficulty: and therefore, that it might be believed he was not a disciple of Christ, so not the man; he swears in a profane manner, and imprecates the judgments of God upon him:

and immediately the cock crew; the second time; which was a signal by which he might call to remembrance, what Christ had said to him; that before the cock crowed twice, he should deny him thrice,

Mark 14:72. It was now early in the morning, about three o'clock, or somewhat after.

s Misn. Bava Kama, c. 8, sect. 6. Vid. L'Empereur in ib.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 27. And - the cock crew. — Peter denied our Lord three times: -

Peter's first denial.

I. This took place, when he was without, or beneath, in the hall of Caiaphas's house. He was not in the higher part where Christ stood before the high priest; but without that division of the hall, and in the lower part with the servants and officers, at the fire kindled in the midst of the hall, John 18:16; John 18:18; and the girl who kept the door had entered into the hall, where she charged Peter.

Peter's second denial.

II. This was in a short time after the first, Luke 22:58. Having once denied his Master, he naturally retired from the place where his accuser was to the vestibule of the hall, Matthew 26:71, and it was the time of the first cock-crowing, or soon after midnight. After remaining here a short time, perhaps an hour, another girl sees him, and says to them who were standing by in the vestibule, that he was one of them. Peter, to avoid this charge, withdraws into the hall, and warms himself. The girl, and those to whom she had spoken, follow him; the communication between the two places being immediate. Here a man enforces the charge of the girl, according to Luke; and others urge it, according to St. John; and Peter denies Jesus vehemently.

Peter's third denial.

III. He was now in the hall, and also within sight of Jesus, though at such a distance from him that Jesus could not know what passed, but in a supernatural way. And, about an hour after his second denial, those who stood by founded a third charge against him, on his being a Galilean, which St. Luke says, Luke 22:59, one in particular strongly affirmed; and which, according to John, John 18:26, was supported by one of Malchus's relations. This occasioned a more vehement denial than before, and immediately the cock crew the second time, which is eminently called αλεκτοροφωνια. The first denial may have been between our twelve and one; and the second between our two and three.

At the time of the third denial, Luke 22:61 proves that Jesus was in the same room with Peter. We must farther observe that Matthew, Matthew 26:57, lays the scene of Peter's denials in the house of Caiaphas: whereas John, John 18:15-23, seems to intimate that these transactions took place in the house of Annas; but this difficulty arises from the injudicious insertion of the particle ουν, therefore, in John 18:24, which should be omitted, on the authority of ADES, Mt. BH, many others; besides some versions, and some of the primitive fathers. Griesbach has left it out of the text. See Bishop Newcome's Harm. notes, p. 48.

The time of Peter's denials happened during the space of the third Roman watch, or that division of the night, between twelve and three, which is called αλεκτοροφωνια, or cock-crowing, Mark 13:35. Concerning the nature and progress of Peter's denial, see the notes on Matthew 26:58; Matthew 26:69-75.