Matthew 26:70

The Message

In front of everybody there, he denied it. “I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

Cross References

Proverbs 28:26

If you think you know it all, you’re a fool for sure; real survivors learn wisdom from others.

Proverbs 29:23

Pride lands you flat on your face; humility prepares you for honors.

Proverbs 29:25

The fear of human opinion disables; trusting in God protects you from that.

Isaiah 57:11

“Who talked you into the pursuit of this nonsense, leaving me high and dry, forgetting you ever knew me? Because I don’t yell and make a scene, do you think I don’t exist? I’ll go over, detail by detail, all your ‘righteous’ attempts at religion, and expose the absurdity of it all. Go ahead, cry for help to your collection of no-gods: A good wind will blow them away. They’re smoke, nothing but smoke. “But anyone who runs to me for help will inherit the land, will end up owning my holy mountain!” * * *

Jeremiah 17:9

“The heart is hopelessly dark and deceitful, a puzzle that no one can figure out. But I, God, search the heart and examine the mind. I get to the heart of the human. I get to the root of things. I treat them as they really are, not as they pretend to be.” * * *

Matthew 26:69

All this time, Peter was sitting out in the courtyard. One servant girl came up to him and said, “You were with Jesus the Galilean.”

Matthew 26:71

As he moved over toward the gate, someone else said to the people there, “This man was with Jesus the Nazarene.”

Luke 22:57

He denied it, “Woman, I don’t even know him.”