SEV Biblia, Chapter 26:34
Jess le dice: De cierto te digo que esta noche, antes que el gallo cante, me negars tres veces.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Matthew 26:34
Verse 34. Jesus said] Our Lord's answer to Peter is very emphatic and impressive. Verily-I speak a solemn weighty truth, thou wilt not only be stumbled, fall off, and forsake thy Master, but thou wilt even deny that thou hast, or ever had, any knowledge of or connection with me; and this thou wilt do, not by little and little, through a long process of time, till the apostasy, daily gathering strength, shall be complete; but thou wilt do it this very night, and that not once only, but thrice; and this thou wilt do also in the earlier part of the night, before even a cock shall crow. Was not this warning enough to him not to trust in his own strength, but to depend on God?
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 34. Jesus said unto him, verily I say unto thee , etc.] Christ, the more strongly to asseverate what he was about to say, uses the word verily, or prefixes his Amen to it, as being a certain truth, and what Peter might assure himself of would certainly come to pass: that this night before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice ; which is, as if he should say, thou wilt not only be offended because of me, and flee from me, and be scattered with the rest, as will be the case of all of you; but thou wilt deny that thou knowest me, that thou belongest to me, or hast any concern with me; and this thou wilt do not only once, but again and again, even three times, one after another, and that this very night, before the cock has done crowing. In Mark it is said, that this day, even in this night, before the cock crow twice, thou shalt deny me thrice, ( Mark 14:30); which may be reconciled with the words of Matthew, and the other evangelists, by observing, that the word twice is not in Bezas ancient copy, which he gave to the university of Cambridge, nor is it in the Ethiopic version; which if allowed to be the true reading, the difficulty is removed at once; but whereas it is in other copies, no stress must be laid on this, nor is there any need of it: for whereas the cock crows twice in the night, once at midnight, and again near break of day; and which latter crowing being louder, and more welcome, and most taken notice of, is, by way of eminence, called the cock crowing; and is what Matthew here has respect to, and so designs the same as Mark does; and the sense of both is, that before the cock crow a second time, which is most properly the cock crowing, Peter should three times deny his master, as he did; (see Mark 13:35), where cock crowing is distinguished from midnight, the first time the cock crows, and means the second time of crowing; and where Mark is to be understood in the same sense as Matthew, and both entirely agree. So cock crowing and midnight are distinguished by the Jews, who say f1571 , that on all other days they remove the ashes from the altar, rbgh tayrqb , at cock crowing, or near unto it, whether before or after; but on the day of atonement, twxhm , at midnight: and who also speak of the cocks crowing a first and second, and even a third time f1572 . Says R. Shila, he that begins his journey before cock crowing, his blood be upon his head. R. Josiah says, he may not proceed bwy d[ , until he repeats; that is, until he crows twice: and there are, who say, until he trebles it, or crows a third time: of what do they speak? of a middling one, i.e. which neither crows too soon, nor too late.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 31-35 - Improper self-confidence, like that of Peter, is the first step to fall. There is a proneness in all of us to be over-confident. But thos fall soonest and foulest, who are the most confident in themselves Those are least safe, who think themselves most secure. Satan is activ to lead such astray; they are most off their guard: God leaves them to themselves, to humble them.
Greek Textus Receptus
εφη 5346 5713 V-IXI-3S αυτω 846 P-DSM ο 3588 T-NSM ιησους 2424 N-NSM αμην 281 HEB λεγω 3004 5719 V-PAI-1S σοι 4671 P-2DS οτι 3754 CONJ εν 1722 PREP ταυτη 3778 D-DSF τη 3588 T-DSF νυκτι 3571 N-DSF πριν 4250 ADV αλεκτορα 220 N-ASM φωνησαι 5455 5658 V-AAN τρις 5151 ADV απαρνηση 533 5695 V-FDI-2S με 3165 P-1AS
Vincent's NT Word Studies
34. Before the cock crow. A little more graphic if the article is omitted, as in the Greek. Before a single cock shall be heard, early in the night, thou shalt deny me. Dr. Thomson ("Land and Book") says that the barn-door fowls "swarm round every door, share in the food of their possessors, are at home among the children in every room, roost overhead at night, and with their ceaseless crowing are the town-clock and the morning-bell to call up sleepers at early dawn."
