What Does Matthew 26:75 Mean in the King James?
And Peter remembered the word of Jesus, which said unto him, Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. And he went out, and wept bitterly.
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 Greek verb for Peter’s denial shares its root with Jesus’ warning that he will deny the one who denies him, so the remembered word names both the act and its stakes.
THE MEANING
This verse meets you where a remembered truth makes an action impossible to soften. Peter’s denial stands exposed beside Jesus’ exact prediction, and he weeps with sharp grief. Recognition arrives after the act and reveals the break without disguising it.
THE ROOT
ἀπαρνήσῃ
aparnēsē
GROWS FROM
ἀρνέομαι
arneomai
To deny, disown, or refuse association.
“deny” in this verse is aparnēsē. Matthew uses a compound form of the verb here; Jesus uses its unprefixed form in the warning of Matthew 10:33. The shared root makes Peter’s act and the reciprocal denial in that warning sound like parts of the same relational rupture.
ALSO GROWS
arneomai: To deny or disown.
ἀρνέομαι
This unprefixed form appears in Matthew 10:33, linking Peter’s denial to Jesus’ warning about denying him before others.
aparneomai: To deny or disown; the compound form used here.
ἀπαρνέομαι
The compound form also appears in Mark 8:34 for denying oneself, showing how the same verb can describe a severing of allegiance.
ἐμνήσθη
emnēsthē
GROWS FROM
μιμνῄσκομαι (mimnēskomai; μνη-/μνα-)
To remember or call to mind.
“remembered” in this verse is emnēsthē. Peter’s remembering makes Jesus’ words present beside the act he has just committed. The same word family includes a memorial, something that carries a remembrance forward into the present.
ALSO GROWS
mnēmoneuō: To remember or mention.
μνημονεύω
This related verb shows remembrance as an active bringing of something back to mind, as Peter does with Jesus’ words.
mnēmosynon: A memorial or remembrance.
μνημόσυνον
This related noun shows how the word family can name what preserves a memory; here, Jesus’ words return as a witness to Peter’s act.
THE PATTERN
What is remembered can make a present moment legible by bringing a spoken word back beside it.
And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them; and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.THE THREAD
But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven.Matthew 26:75 uses ἀπαρνέομαι (aparneomai, “deny or disown”); Matthew 10:33 uses ἀρνέομαι (arneomai, “deny or disown”). Their shared root makes Peter’s remembered sentence more than a forecast: it names the same relational act Jesus warns about.
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