What Does John 18:27 Mean in the King James?
Peter then denied again: and immediately the cock crew.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The rooster’s cry is the sound of a spoken prediction becoming present.
THE MEANING
A denial can leave the mouth before its cost is fully understood. The sound that follows marks the moment, and what has been spoken now takes shape in the present.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It loosens the belief that denial remains only an inward moment: the rooster’s immediate cry gives it an audible place in the world.
THE ROOT
ἠρνήσατο
ērnēsato
GROWS FROM
ἀρνέομαι
To deny, disown, or refuse acknowledgment.
“denied” in this verse is ērnēsato. The verb carries the force of disowning or refusing acknowledgment. Its repeated action becomes part of a sequence that the rooster’s immediate cry makes audible.
ALSO GROWS
arnēsis: Denial, refusal.
ἄρνησις
This noun names the act carried by the verb: Peter’s words enact a disavowal.
arnētēs: One who denies or disowns.
ἀρνητής
This related noun shows the same root describing the person who performs the denial.
ἐφώνησεν
ephōnēsen
GROWS FROM
φωνέω
To sound, call, or utter a voice.
The Greek verb translated “crew” is a form of phoneō, “to sound” or “call.” Peter’s denial is followed by another voice-like event, and the earlier prediction joins those sounds into one sequence.
ALSO GROWS
phōnē: Voice, sound.
φωνή
The rooster’s crow is literally a sound or voice in this word family.
phōnazō: To cry aloud, call out.
φωνάζω
This related verb extends the same sound-root into a loud call.
THE PATTERN
A spoken word becomes visible when events arrive in its stated sequence.
Jesus answered him, Wilt thou lay down thy life for my sake? Verily, verily, I say unto thee, The cock shall not crow, till thou hast denied me thrice.God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?And now I have told you before it come to pass, that, when it is come to pass, ye might believe.THE THREAD
Jesus answered him, Wilt thou lay down thy life for my sake? Verily, verily, I say unto thee, The cock shall not crow, till thou hast denied me thrice.Both verses use ἠρνήσατο (ērnēsato, “denied”), from ἀρνέομαι (arneomai, “deny or disown”), and forms of φωνέω (phoneō, “sound or call”) for the rooster’s crow. The earlier verse speaks the exact pair that this one lets you hear: Peter’s denial and the rooster’s cry.
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