THE DENIAL OF PETER

St Mark 14:66-72; Luke 22:54-62; John 18:15-18; John 18:25-27

The accounts differ slightly, and exactly in such a way as the evidence of honest witnesses might be expected to differ in describing the minor details (which at the time would appear unimportant) in a scene full of stir and momentous incidents. Discrepancies of this kind form the strongest argument for the independence of the different gospels. St Luke mentions that ‘the Lord turned and looked upon Peter.’ St John states that the third question was put by a kinsman of Malchus.

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