What Does Mark 14:30 Mean in the King James?
And Jesus saith unto him, Verily I say unto thee, That this day, even in this night, before the cock crow twice, thou shalt deny me thrice.
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
“Deny” here carries the force of disowning: Jesus names three acts of pushing the relationship away before Peter believes such a rupture possible.
THE MEANING
The verse speaks into your certainty about your own loyalty: conviction does not make you incapable of disowning what you love when pressure comes. It gives that fracture an exact shape, within this night, before the second crow, three times.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that strong love or sincere resolve makes failure impossible.
THE ROOT
ἀπαρνήσῃ
aparnēsē
GROWS FROM
ἀρν
To deny, disown, or refuse to acknowledge; in this compound, the prefix ἀπό- (apó, away) adds the force of rejecting or repudiating.
“deny” in this verse is aparnēsē. The Greek form ἀπαρνήσῃ (aparnēsē, “you will disown”) carries more than a mistaken statement: it describes a rejection of relationship. The three denials make that rupture concrete and repeated.
ALSO GROWS
arnéomai: To deny or disown
ἀρνέομαι
This is the base verb in the same consonantal family, showing the disowning force beneath the verse’s “deny.”
arnētēs: One who denies or disowns
ἀρνητής
The family can name a person by the act of denial, underscoring that this is an enacted stance, not merely an inaccurate sentence.
THE PATTERN
Words can claim loyalty while human action breaks from it, but the Lord’s faithfulness is not measured by that failure.
But he spake the more vehemently, If I should die with thee, I will not deny thee in any wise. Likewise also said they all.Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues.If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he can not deny himself.THE THREAD
And the second time the cock crew. And Peter called to mind the word that Jesus said unto him, Before the cock crow twice, thou shalt deny me thrice. And when he thought thereon, he wept.The same Greek verb family, ἀρνέομαι (arnéomai, “deny, disown”), returns when the second crow completes the count. What Peter heard as a prediction becomes the words he remembers having spoken, and the repetition makes the rupture impossible to dismiss.
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