Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
I neither know nor understand (oute oida oute epistamai). This denial is fuller in Mark, briefest in John.
What thou sayest (su ti legeiv). Can be understood as a direct question. Note position of
thou (su), proleptical.
Into the porch (eiv to proaulion). Only here in the New Testament. Plato uses it of a prelude on a flute. It occurs also in the plural for preparations the day before the wedding. Here it means the vestibule to the court. Matthew 26:71 has pulwna, a common word for gate or front porch.
And the cock crew (kai alektwr efwnhsen). Omitted by Aleph B L Sinaitic Syriac. It is genuine in verse Mark 14:72 where "the second time" (ek deuterou) occurs also. It is possible that because of verse Mark 14:72 it crept into verse Mark 14:68. Mark alone alludes to the cock crowing twice, originally (Mark 14:30), and twice in verse Mark 14:72, besides verse Mark 14:68 which is hardly genuine.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Mark 14:68:
Mark 14:68
John 18:26
1 Peter 4:16
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