the Week of Proper 12 / Ordinary 17
Click here to learn more!
Read the Bible
Louis Segond
Jean 13:24
Bible Study Resources
Concordances:
- Nave'sDictionaries:
- BridgewayEncyclopedias:
- InternationalDevotionals:
- EveryParallel Translations
Et Simon Pierre lui fit signe de demander qui était celui dont [Jésus] parlait.
Simon Pierre lui fit signe de demander qui était celui de qui il parlait.
Simon Pierre donc lui fait signe de demander lequel était celui dont il parlait.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
beckoned: Luke 1:22, Luke 5:7, Acts 12:17, Acts 13:16, Acts 21:40
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Simon Peter therefore beckoned to him,.... Peter perhaps lay at a distance from Christ, or in some such position, that he could not whisper to him himself; and besides, knew that John might use more freedom, as he was admitted to more familiarity with him; and being at some distance also from him, he beckoned to him; which was usually done at meals, when they could not, by reason of their posture, discourse together: this being the case, מחוי ליה במחוג, "they made signs", by nodding to one another k; that is, as the gloss explains it, they pointed with their hands and fingers, and by nodding or beckoning; such a method Peter took, signifying his desire,
that he should ask who it should be of whom he spake: which he did not out of mere curiosity, but from an honest intention and pure zeal, that he, with the rest, might show their abhorrence of such a person, and avoid him; and do all that lay in their power to hinder him from putting his designs into execution, and that the innocent might be free from all suspicion.
k T. Bab. Beracot ib.
