Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Mark 14:29
But Peter said unto him, Although all shall be offended, yet [will] not I.
29. But Peter said unto him ] Ardent and impulsive as ever, the Apostle could not endure the thought of such desertion. His protestations of fidelity are more fully given in Mat 26:33 and Joh 13:37.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Mar 14:29
Although all shall be offended, yet will not I.
Peters aim was a threefold one
It consisted in-
1. His vehement contradiction of the words of Christ.
2. His preferring himself to and putting himself above the rest of the apostles.
3. His self-confidence and boastfulness of his own strength. The remedy against temptation is such a knowledge of our own natural weakness, as may lead us to distrust ourselves, to rely on God, and to seek His protection in all things. (W. Denton, M. A.)
Peters rash zeal
Peters action in this instance was at the same time commendable for some things and faulty for others.
I. Commendable in the following particulars.
1. His purpose and resolution of mind, not to take offence at Christ, which purpose and resolution he professes sincerely and from his heart, speaking as he really thought.
2. It is also commendable in him, that he was so zealous and forward above the other disciples to show his love to Christ
II. Yet he was at fault in being so confident.
1. In that he directly contradicts the express words of Christ, whereby He had plainly told him and the rest, that they should all be offended at Him.
2. In presuming rashly and confidently upon his own strength or ability to hold out constantly, and to stick close to the Saviour in the time of trouble and danger now at hand.
3. In arrogantly preferring himself to his fellow disciples, affirming that though all should be offended, yet he would not. (George Petter.)
Enthusiasm
Enthusiasm is the glow of the soul; it is the lever by which men are raised above their average level and enterprise, and become capable of a goodness and benevolence which, but for it, would be quite impossible. There is not too much enthusiasm of any sort or for any object, in a world like ours, and Christians had better not join in sneering at a force, which, in its purest form, founded and reared the Church of Jesus Christ. True, enthusiasm often loses its way, spends itself on mistaken causes, on imperfect systems, on worthless ideals, but that is no reason for saying that all enthusiasm is bad. Mistaken enthusiasm, like Peters, will in time be rudely tested by experience; and meanwhile those who have any reason to hope that their enthusiasm is not mistaken, can afford to be generous and hopeful about others. He that is not against us is, unconsciously perhaps, on our side. (Canon Liddon.)
Peters rashness
Here we have an instance (as many elsewhere) of Peters temerity and rashness, not well considering his weakness, and what spirit he was of. He betrays great infirmity, arrogating much more than was in him.
1. He directly contradicts his Lord, who said, All ye; Peter says, No, not all-he will not; not this night-no, never.
2. He believes not the oracle of the prophet Zechariah (Zec 13:7), but would shift it off with pomp of words, as not concerning him; he was not one of the sheep that should be scattered, though the Pastor was smitten.
3. He presumes too much upon his own strength, and of that which is out of his own power, never mentioning or including the help and strength of God, by whom alone he could stand. He neither considers his own frailty, which will overthrow him, nor yet the power of God, which can sustain and uphold him.
4. He sets himself too much above other men; as if all men were weak in comparison with Peter, and Peter the champion.
5. He is bold, hardy, and vainly confident in a thing yet to come, in which he has never tried his strength. Knowing his present affection, he will take no notice of his future peril; nay, he disclaims and almost scorns the danger, little thinking how close it is to him. (Dr. Thomas Taylor.)
Self-deception
Louis XV, in his disgusting depravity, exposed himself to the smallpox, then the dread of all society. Though flattered for a time into the belief that there was no danger, he was at length undeceived; but, owing to the prevalence of court intrigue, the information was only conveyed to him at the latest possible moment. He caused his guilty companions to be sent away, telling them that he would recall them should he recover from his disorder. Just before dismissing one of the most degraded among them, he said: I would fain die as a believer, and not as an infidel. I have been a great sinner, doubtless; but I have ever observed Lent with a most scrupulous exactitude; I have caused more than a hundred thousand masses to be said for the repose of unhappy souls; I have respected the clergy, and punished the authors of all impious works; so that I flatter myself I have not been a very bad Christian.
Extreme self-dependence
There is a famous speech recorded of an old Norseman thoroughly characteristic of the Teuton. I believe neither in idols nor demons, said he; I put my sole trust in my own strength of body and soul. (S. Smiles.)
Danger of presumption
A scientific gentleman, deputed by the Government, was, not many years ago, examining the scene of a fatal explosion. He was accompanied by the underviewer of the colliery, and as they were inspecting the edges of a goaf (a region of foul air), it was observed that the Davy lamps which they carried were afire. I suppose, said the inspector, that there is a good deal of fire damp hereabouts. Thousands and thousands of cubic feet all through the goaf, coolly replied his companion. Why, exclaimed the official, do you mean to say that there is nothing but that shred of wire gauze between us and eternity? Nothing at all, replied the underviewer, very composedly. Theres nothing here where we stand but that gauze wire to keep the whole mine from being blown into the air. The precipitate retreat of the Government official was instantaneous. And thus it should be with the sinner: his retreat from the ways of sin-those goafs of poisonous air-should be instantaneous. Sir Humphrey Davys lamp was never designed, as a substitute for caution if accidentally or unknowingly carried into foul air, whereas many do so knowingly and habitually.
Fuente: Biblical Illustrator Edited by Joseph S. Exell
But Peter said unto him,…. Being greatly moved at what Christ had said, that all of them would be offended with him that night, and run away from him, and be scattered from him, and one another:
although all shall be offended, yet will not I; though all the rest of the disciples, the other ten, should do as Judas had done, should fall off from Christ, and either betray him, or deny him, or, at least, turn their backs on him, yet he would do neither;
[See comments on Mt 26:33].
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Yet will not I (‘ ). Mark records here Peter’s boast of loyalty even though all desert him. All the Gospels tell it. See discussion on Mt 26:33.
Fuente: Robertson’s Word Pictures in the New Testament
1) “But Peter said unto Him,” (de Petros ephe auto) “Then Peter chided, scolded, or corrected Him,” regarding His and the other disciples’ denying or being offended because of Him, Mat 26:33; Luk 22:31.
2) “Although all shall be offended,” (ei kai pantes skandalisthesontai) “If (even if) all men (all the rest of the flock) shall be offended or scandalized, afraid to be identified ‘with you, your name,” conceding that it was possible that the rest might.
3) “Yet will not I.- (all’ ouk ego) “But (yet) I absolutely will not.” This is the third time Peter stated that he would die for the Lord, Mat 26:33-34; Luk 22:33-34; Joh 13:37. One has well written:
“Beware of Peter’s words,
Nor confidentially say,
I’ll never deny my Lord,
But I trust I never may,”
Fuente: Garner-Howes Baptist Commentary
‘But Peter said to him, “Although all will desert you in fear (‘be caused to stumble’) yet I will not.” And Jesus says to him, “Truly I say to you that you today, even this night, before the cock crows twice will three times deny me.” ’
There can be no doubt about Peter’s goodness of heart. Nor about his sincerity. Nor about his self-confidence. And when the opportunity came to fight for Jesus he would willingly have died for Him. But he had not allowed for the combined effects of the shock of seeing Judas, his friend, acting as betrayer, the eeriness of the night, the clang of Roman arms, being forbidden to defend Jesus when he wanted to fight, Jesus’ submission to His enemies, being left behind helpless and in hiding in the Garden, the nerve tingling journey to where Jesus was taken, and what it would be like with nerves stretched to the full to be challenged as to his relationship with Jesus in the very heart of the enemy’s territory. Peter did not realise that he was a bull not a fox.
“Truly I say to you that you today, even this night, before the cock crows twice will three times deny me.” Jesus knew Peter’s heart better than he knew it himself, and while he was no doubt hurt by Jesus’ words, later in a perverse way it might bring him some comfort to know that Jesus had known what he would do and had still loved him. ‘Before the cock crows twice.’ The early morning activity of cockerels did not occur only once. There could be a brief interlude between crowings (and it did not have to be the same cockerel). It may also be that ‘before the cock crows twice’ was a well known way of indicating a brief period.
Note the narrowing down of the time. First ‘today’, any time up to sunset. Then ‘this night’, before dawn. Then ‘before the cock crows twice’.
Fuente: Commentary Series on the Bible by Peter Pett
Mar 14:29. Although all shall be offended, It is most probable that Judas by this timehad slipped away from the disciples, to fulfil his vile contract with the sanhedrim; and Peter missing him vaunted, that though all his fellow-apostles should follow Judas’s example; he would stand by his Lord. We may observe, that if St. Mark’s Gospel was dictated or reviewed by St. Peter, as the ancients affirm, the latter, out of his deep penitence, represents the event with the highest aggravations; for nothing can be stronger than the expressions in Mar 14:31.
Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke
29. ] if even all: ‘ even if all .’ The before intensifies the whole hypothesis: the after intensifies only that word which it introduces in the hypothesis. See Klotz on Devar. p. 519 f.: where however the account is not quite as clear as might be desired. has here its full adversative exceptional force notwithstanding: cf. Il. . 153, 154, , : and Klotz on Devar. p. 93.
Fuente: Henry Alford’s Greek Testament
Mar 14:29 . It is the former part of the Master’s speech that lays hold of Peter’s mind; hence he promptly proceeds to make protestations of fidelity. , etc.: even if (as is likely) all the rest shall be offended (the future, because the case put is conceived to be probable), yet certainly ( strongly opposing what follows to what goes before; vide Klotz, p. 93, on the force of in the apodosis of a conditional proposition) not I .
Fuente: The Expositors Greek Testament by Robertson
Although = Even if all, &c. Throwing no doubt on the hypothesis. App-118.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
29.] -if even all: -even if all. The before intensifies the whole hypothesis: the after intensifies only that word which it introduces in the hypothesis. See Klotz on Devar. p. 519 f.: where however the account is not quite as clear as might be desired. has here its full adversative exceptional force-notwithstanding: cf. Il. . 153, 154, , : and Klotz on Devar. p. 93.
Fuente: The Greek Testament
Although: Mat 26:33-35, Luk 22:33, Luk 22:34, Joh 13:36-38, Joh 21:15
Reciprocal: Mar 14:37 – Simon Mar 14:54 – Peter Mar 14:68 – he denied Luk 17:34 – I tell
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Peter’s Wanderings
Mar 14:29-72
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
Peter will ever be recognized as one of the outstanding disciples of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. This does not mean, however, that Peter knew no frailties of the flesh.
We like to group the various disciples and followers of Christ into six divisions.
1. There were the five hundred to whom Jesus appeared at one time. This is the largest number mentioned as followers of Christ prior to Pentecost. We would call these the saved. There is no special mark to distinguish them either in character or deed. However, their names were written in the Lamb’s Book of Life, and they were counted as brethren of the Lord.
2. There were the seventy. These are they whom the Lord sent out two by two. They were among the saved but they were more than the saved, they were servants. They moved under a special command from the Lord fulfilling a definite ministry.
3. There were the twelve. These were closer to the Lord than the seventy, even as the seventy were closer than the five hundred. We might call them the group of special privileges. They accompanied the Lord whithersoever He went. They heard His teachings, saw His miracles, and served Him as companions.
4. There were the three, Peter, James and John. We might call this group the inner circle. The Lord picked them out on several occasions from among the twelve and took them with Him. Notable among these examples are these: He took them into the death room in the home of Jairus. Afterward He took them with Him in the Mount of Transfiguration. Following that, He carried them into the inner reaches of Gethsemane, where He prayed in agony.
5. Even closer than the three, there was John, the beloved, who leaned upon Jesus’ breast.
6. Even closer than John, there was, perhaps, Mary of Bethany, whose devotion to her Lord is most marked. It was she who anointed Him ahead of time unto His burial.
Peter, therefore, while perhaps not the closest in his fellowship to the Lord could certainly be counted among the three who were closest. This fact, however, does not lessen the other fact that the Apostle was carnal in many respects.
(1) One of the first marks of his carnality is discovered in Luk 9:33 where we read of how Peter said unto the Master, “Let us make three tabernacles; one for Thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias: not knowing what he said.”
(2) Following this comes the second mark in Mat 14:30. There we read: “And when he (Peter) saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord save me.”
(3) Outstanding, however, among the marks of Peter’s weaknesses is the one recorded in Mat 16:22, Mat 16:23. Jesus had told the disciples how He must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes and be killed. Then it was that Peter took Him and began to rebuke Him, saying, “Be it far from Thee Lord: this shall not be unto Thee.”
No sooner were the words out of Peter’s mouth than Jesus said unto him, “Get thee behind Me, Satan: thou art an offence unto Me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.”
It was following this scene that Peter’s real wanderings, which climaxed in his broken heart and bitter weeping, occurred. We have felt that it was at this point that Peter’s backsliding began. That he loved God, we do not doubt. That he expressed the most wonderful faith in Christ, we know.
All of this shows how the most faithful and ardent followers of Christ must watch their step.
I. PETER’S FIRST OFFENSE (Mar 14:29)
1. The Lord’s definite statement. In Mar 14:27 we read: “And Jesus said unto them, All ye shall be offended, because of Me this night: for it is written, I will smite the Shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered.”
The Lord Jesus knew all things, and He knew that not one of the twelve would remain faithful during the time of His greatest sorrow. He knew it because He knew men, and knew what was in them. He knew it because He knew that while the Spirit was willing, the flesh was weak. He knew it because He knew the terrific onslaught of the tempter, and how it would make the disciples afraid.
2. The Lord’s statement was the Lord’s warning. He told them what they would do, in order that they might seek God’s aid and help to remain true. Not only did He tell them that they would offend and forsake Him, but He definitely told them of their return. Mar 14:28 reads: “But after that I am risen, I will go before you into Galilee.” Thus Christ prophesied two things, their wanderings and their return; their scattering from Him, and their following after Him into Galilee.
3. Peter’s rebuff. Peter said: “Although all shall be offended, yet will not I.”
(1) In this Peter first of all set himself up against both the Lord and the Prophets. The Lord said: “All ye shall be offended.” He said: “Not I.” The Prophets said: “The sheep shall be scattered.” Peter said: Yet will not I.”
Let us beware how we discount the Words spoken by the lips of the Lord, and by the pens of the Prophets. God’s Word is forever settled in Heaven.
(2) In this Peter in his self-confidence set himself above the eleven. Christ said, “All,” the Prophets said, the same thing as “all.” Peter said, “Although all * * yet will not I.” It is written, “Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.” Thus it was that a boastful self-confidence, was the first step in Peter’s wanderings.
II. PETER’S SECOND DOWNWARD STEP (Mar 14:37-38)
1. The Garden watch. After the Supper was ended, after Peter’s boast had been made, the Lord Jesus went out with the disciples into Gethsemane. There He said to the twelve, “Sit ye here, while I shall pray.” Motioning, however to Peter, James, and John, He took them with Him. The Lord was sore amazed and very heavy, as He saw the hour of His travail sweeping fast upon Him. Turning to the three disciples He said, “My soul is exceeding sorrowful unto death: tarry ye here, and watch.”
Then, He went forward a stone’s throw, and fell on the ground and prayed.
2. The sleeping disciples. While Jesus prayed the disciples slept. How great must have been this added sorrow. In Mar 14:37 we read: “And He cometh, and findeth them sleeping.” He did not awaken, James, nor disturb John. They had made no rash promises. However, the Lord did say unto Peter: “Simon, sleepest thou? couldest thou not watch one hour?” He who had been so persistent in asserting his unwavering fidelity, had fallen asleep the very first hour. He who had said: “Although all * * yet not I,” slept with the other two.
Thus we see how Peter was rushing a downward path.
3. The warning of the Saviour. As Christ found them sleeping He said: “Watch ye and pray, lest ye enter into temptation. The spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is weak.” How considerate was our Lord toward His disciples. He did not scold nor berate them. He did tenderly warn them against the tempter. He rather excused their sleeping, acknowledging that in their spirit they meant to watch and to pray, but that in their flesh they were weak.
For our part we want to weigh well these warning words. When Christ said, “Watch ye and pray, lest ye enter into temptation,” He just the same as said, If ye do not watch and pray, ye will yield to the tempter. This is doubly emphasized in the expression, “The Spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is weak.” There is no man who can meet the tempter in the energy of his flesh because the flesh is weak. The only way is to watch and to pray; and thus, to walk in the Spirit.
III. PETER’S THIRD DEFECTION (Mar 14:47-48)
1. Approaching circumstances. When the Lord returned to the three disciples after His second hour of agony and prayer, He found them asleep again for their eyes were heavy. Neither wist they what to answer Him. “When He came to them the third time and found them still sleeping and said: “Sleep on now, and take your rest: it is enough, the hour is come; behold, the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.”
As they rose up to meet the approaching mob, Judas one of the twelve gave Christ the kiss of betrayal. Then the multitude laid their hands on Jesus and took Him.
2. Peter’s rashness. Our key verse says: “And one of them that stood by drew a sword, and smote a servant of the high priest, and cut off his ear.”
Another Gospel tells us that Peter was the one who did the smiting, and that Malchus was the servant who was smitten.
(1) We like to think of this scene as Peter’s carnal effort to re-establish himself in the eyes of his Master. He had failed to watch and he had failed to pray. Now, he was determined to make up in doing, what he lacked in praying.
How many there are who fail in the spiritualities, and then by some carnal effort they try to patch up their wrong. Let the Christian know that carnal activities, can never mend spiritual lethargy.
(2) We are forced to think that much of carnal service is no more effective than cutting off ears. What we do in the flesh cannot please God. Our greatest service is altogether unacceptable if it is a carnal service. Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels; though I give all my goods to feed the poor; though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, I am accomplishing nothing that is acceptable unto God.
3. Christ’s undoing of a well meant but misdirected service. Our Lord stooped down, picked up the ear, put it back on Malchus, and then told Peter to put up his sword. God grant that our service may not make necessary a similar miraculous intervention.
IV. PETER’S FOURTH DIGRESSION (Mar 14:54)
1. The forsaken Christ. As the multitude approached the Lord Jesus said unto them: “Are ye come out, as against a thief, with swords and with staves to take Me? I was daily with you in the Temple teaching, and ye took me not: but the Scriptures must be fulfilled.” It was after the above words that we read: “And they all forsook Him, and fled.”
How many there are who are willing to follow the Lord in His popularity and in the day of His power, who forsake Him in the hour of His persecution. Of such we would write, “Ye did run well; who did hinder you?”
Such disciples are like unto the seed which was sown In the stony places, which had not root in itself, but dured for a while: and then when tribulation and persecution came because of the Word, by and by was offended.
2. The sulking disciple. As they forsook and fled, Peter, perhaps, remembered his words so boastfully spoken, “Although all shall be offended, yet will not I.” At least Peter followed afar off. His place, beyond any doubt, was at his Master’s side. The Master, however, had rebuked Peter, and told him to put up his sword. In turn, Peter must have gone up the miff tree with feelings wounded, with spirit sulking. Therefore, with a heart sore, he followed afar off.
Some saints who love the Lord seem almost anxious to have their feelings hurt. They leave them hanging out purposefully hoping that some one will step upon them.
V. PETER’S FIFTH DEPARTURE (Mar 14:54; Mar 14:66)
Mar 14:54 tells us: “And he sat with the servants, and warmed himself at the fire.” Mar 14:66 says: “As Peter was beneath in the palace.” Mar 14:67 says: “When she saw Peter warming himself.”
1. Peter’s restlessness. In the study of the four Gospels we find that Peter was now here and now there. Beyond doubt he was uncomfortable in his spirit, and unhappy in his heart. He knew that he was wrong and yet he was trying to force himself to believe that he was right. Self- justification is very simple. Where is he who is not ready to condemn another while, at the same time, he shields himself?
Sin is heinous wherever you find it, but sin is more than evil when the sinner excuses his sins.
2. Peter sitting with the servants. The 1st Psalm says: “Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.” We might write it thus: “Unhappy, miserable, is the man who sits with the servants of Satan.”
How many there are today who seem more satisfied with the fellowship of the ungodly than with the fellowship of their Lord.
3. Peter warmed himself at the fire. Permit us to play upon words a little bit. There are many fires at which saints may warm themselves. I do not mean fires Divinely kindled, but fires kindled by the evil one. The devil has his fires. May we suggest that the theaters, the movies, the card tables, the dance halls are all fires of the enemy.
Shall we who are called out of the world, live in the world and love the world? Do we think that we must go down into the pleasures of sin to satisfy our desire for pleasure? Did God say in vain, “In Thy presence is fullness of joy; and at Thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore”? Is not the fruit of the Spirit joy, and peace, and happiness?
Remember that the Saviour bequeathed unto us His joy, when He said: “That My joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.”
VI. PETER’S SIXTH STUMBLING (Mar 14:66-72)
1. The nagging of the enemy. As Peter stood warming himself at the fire thrice he was taunted by maids. The enemy is always ready to profit by a sore spot in a believer’s character. If there is an ember of discontent or chagrin, the devil will certainly seek to fan it into a flame. One of the hardest things for a nervous, impetuous, high-strung Christian to bear is nagging. Thus it was as the rebellious Peter pouting against his Lord, stood in the midst of the enemy, one maid and another rubbed it in on him. The first perhaps saw that it angered Peter, so a second one tried her hand.
2. Peter’s denial. First of all Peter said, “I know not, neither understand I what thou sayest.” Again, a maid said: “This is one of them,” and Peter denied again. A little after they that stood by said, “Surely thou art one of them: for thou art a Galilaean, and thy speech agreeth thereto.” This was too much. Peter lost all control, and he began to curse and to swear, saying, “I know not this Man of whom ye speak.” Peter reminds us of a boiler heated to over tension, until the safety valve lets forth the steam.
3. The accusing cock crow. As Peter raised his voice the third time in denial, he heard the cock utter its second crow. Then he remembered how, at the time of his boasting, when he had said, “Although all shall be offended, yet will not I,” that Jesus had said unto him, “Verily I say unto thee, That this day, even in this night, before the cock crow twice, thou shalt deny Me thrice.”
Thus it was that the telltale cock brought Peter back to his senses, and he went out thinking thereupon. As he went he wept, and wept bitterly. Thus it was that in the moment of Peter’s greatest sin came his greatest sorrow. All of this tells us unmistakably that while he failed in conduct he never wavered in faith.
VII. PETER’S SEVENTH MARK OF WEAKNESS (Joh 21:20-22)
We carry you now to a post-resurrection scene. Peter had been privately seen after the resurrection by the Lord. Later on, before the eleven, Peter had made public his faith and love, and had been restored to his service for the Master.
Then it was that the event we present occurred.
1. The Lord’s prophecy of Peter’s death. Turning to the one who had denied Him with an oath, the Lord asserted his faithfulness even unto the death, when He said to Peter: “When thou wast young, thou girdedst thyself, and walkedst whither thou wouldest: but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest not. This spake He, signifying by what death [Peter] should glorify God.” Then said He unto Peter, “Follow Me,” and Peter did follow Him.
2. Peter’s query. After the Lord had spoken to Peter of his own death, Peter did not so much as suggest a plea for mercy and pity. He had, when Christ had told him His own death, said unto Jesus, “Spare thyself Lord.” Peter wanted Christ to pity Himself, but now he did not consider his own life. He did, however, err in one thing. Turning to John, and addressing the Lord, he said, “What shall this man do?” Immediately Christ replied, “What is that to thee? follow thou Me.”
It is not for us to question the wisdom or the guiding hand of our Lord. It is for us to step forward to do or to die.
AN ILLUSTRATION
Few people have ever heard of a “sick” pearl, but it seems that even these beautiful gems pine and lose their color at times, and can be restored to health only by a prolonged visit to their ocean home. At the foot of a cliff under the windows of the Castle of Mirimar, formerly the residence of the Mexican emperor, Maximilian, at a depth of eighty feet below the surface of the Adriatic, is a kind of cage fashioned by divers in the face of the rock. In that cage are some of the most magnificent pearls in existence. They belong to the Archduchess Rainer. Having been left unworn for a long time, the gems lost their color and became “sick,” and the experts were unanimous in declaring that the only means by which they could be restored to their original brilliancy was by submitting them to a prolonged immersion in the depths of the sea. They have been lying there for a number of years, and are gradually but very slowly regaining their former unrivaled oriency.
Here is a hint for curing sick souls. Put them back into their native element of prayer and communion with Christ.-H.
Fuente: Neighbour’s Wells of Living Water
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Peter was always sincere in his general principles of life, but he was rash and did things from impulse as he did in this declaration.
Fuente: Combined Bible Commentary
14:29 {9} But Peter said unto him, Although all shall be offended, yet [will] not I.
(9) Here is set forth in an excellent person a most sorrowful example of man’s rashness and weakness.
Fuente: Geneva Bible Notes
Peter refused to allow the possibility that he would forsake Jesus even though the other disciples might (cf. Joh 21:15). Jesus informed Peter that his defection would really be worse than that of the other disciples. He introduced His warning with the customary solemn affirmation and explained that the denial was not only certain but imminent. Furthermore Peter would utter it three times in spite of the rooster’s double warning. Mark alone referred to the second crowing, probably because of Peter’s recollection of the event. The word Jesus used for "deny" or "disown" (Gr. aparnese) is a strong one meaning "deny utterly."