John 18:27

Good News Translation

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

Parallel Translations

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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]

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Contextual Overview

¹³ and took him first to Annas. He was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was High Priest that year. ¹⁴ It was Caiaphas who had advised the Jewish authorities that it was better that one man should die for all the people. ¹⁵ Simon Peter and another disciple followed Jesus. That other disciple was well known to the High Priest, so he went with Jesus into the courtyard of the High Priest's house, ¹⁶ while Peter stayed outside by the gate. Then the other disciple went back out, spoke to the girl at the gate, and brought Peter inside. ¹⁷ The girl at the gate said to Peter, "Aren't you also one of the disciples of that man?" "No, I am not," answered Peter. ¹⁸ It was cold, so the servants and guards had built a charcoal fire and were standing around it, warming themselves. So Peter went over and stood with them, warming himself. ¹⁹ The High Priest questioned Jesus about his disciples and about his teaching. ²⁰ Jesus answered, "I have always spoken publicly to everyone; all my teaching was done in the synagogues and in the Temple, where all the people come together. I have never said anything in secret. ²¹ Why, then, do you question me? Question the people who heard me. Ask them what I told them—they know what I said." ²² When Jesus said this, one of the guards there slapped him and said, "How dare you talk like that to the High Priest!"

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

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
Then the Lord God took some soil from the ground and formed a man out of it; he breathed life-giving breath into his nostrils and the man began to live.

Genesis 3:19
You will have to work hard and sweat to make the soil produce anything, until you go back to the soil from which you were formed. You were made from soil, and you will become soil again."

Genesis 18:1
The Lord appeared to Abraham at the sacred trees of Mamre. As Abraham was sitting at the entrance of his tent during the hottest part of the day,

Genesis 18:2
he looked up and saw three men standing there. As soon as he saw them, he ran out to meet them. Bowing down with his face touching the ground,

Genesis 18:6
Abraham hurried into the tent and said to Sarah, "Quick, take a sack of your best flour, and bake some bread."

Genesis 18:8
He took some cream, some milk, and the meat, and set the food before the men. There under the tree he served them himself, and they ate.

Genesis 18:30
Abraham said, "Please don't be angry, Lord, but I must speak again. What if there are only thirty?" He said, "I will not do it if I find thirty."

Genesis 18:32
Abraham said, "Please don't be angry, Lord, and I will speak only once more. What if only ten are found?" He said, "I will not destroy it if there are ten."

Ezra 9:6
I said, "O God, I am too ashamed to raise my head in your presence. Our sins pile up higher than our heads; they reach as high as the heavens.

Job 4:19
Do you think he will trust a creature of clay, a thing of dust that can be crushed like a moth?

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.