What Does Luke 22:60 Mean?
And Peter said, Man, I do not know what you are saying. And immediately, while he yet spake, the cock crew.
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And Peter said, Man, I know not what thou sayest. And immediately, while he yet spake, the cock crew.THE KEY
The rooster calls before Peter finishes his denial, so the truth interrupts the very speech trying to outrun it.
THE MEANING
Peter’s denial is still leaving his mouth when the rooster calls. The sound arrives at once, and the moment answers to what Jesus has already said. The verse speaks now wherever a denial is still being voiced while its truth is already audible.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The false belief is that saying “I do not know” can make a relationship or reality disappear; the call comes before the sentence is finished.
THE ROOT
οἶδα
oida
GROWS FROM
εἰδ-
See; knowing as one who has seen.
The Greek verb translated “know” is οἶδα, a perfect form of εἴδω, “to see.” In this denial, the English can sound like a bare lack of information, while the Greek word carries a trace of knowing through seeing or recognition.
ALSO GROWS
eídō: See, perceive.
εἴδω
This is the verb behind οἶδα; its seeing roots the word for knowing in perception.
eîdos: Form, appearance.
εἶδος
This related word names what comes into view, keeping sight and knowing in the same word family.
ἐφώνησεν
ephōnēsen
GROWS FROM
φων-
phōn-
Voice, sound.
The verb translated “crew” belongs to the Greek family for voice and calling aloud. One voice denies while another sounds, and the call enters the scene before Peter’s sentence ends.
ALSO GROWS
phōnē: Voice, sound.
φωνή
This noun names a voice or sound, the same word family heard in the rooster’s call.
phōneō: To sound, call aloud.
φωνέω
This verb is the lemma behind the rooster’s “crew,” showing the call as a voiced sound.
THE PATTERN
A voice or signal can enter a moment of concealment or denial and reveal what is happening.
And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the breath of the day, and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the face of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.And he fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to him, Saul, Saul, why do you pursue me?THE THREAD
To him the gatekeeper opens, and the sheep hear and respond to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out.The rooster’s verb φωνέω and John’s “voice” φωνή belong to the same Greek family of voice and calling aloud. Here the call crosses Peter’s denial; in John, the sheep hear a voice that calls them by name, linking sound with recognition.
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