55And when they had kindled a fire in the midst of the hall, and were set down together, Peter sat down among them.
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I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers. …
Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.
Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts.
Now Peter sat without in the palace: and a damsel came unto him, saying, Thou also wast with Jesus of Galilee. …
And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 54-62)We have here the melancholy story of Peter’s denying his Master, at the time when he was arraigned before the high priest, and those that were of the cabal , that were ready to receive the prey, and to prepare the evidence for his arraignment, as soon as it was day , before the great sanhedrim, Luke 22:66. But notice is not taken here, as was in the other evangelists, of Christ’s being now upon hi…
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