John 18:18 BSB — MannaFest

John 18:18

Because it was cold, the servants and officers were standing around a charcoal fire they had made to keep warm. And Peter was also standing with them, warming himself.

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ASV

Now the servants and the officers were standing there, having made a fire of coals; for it was cold; and they were warming themselves: and Peter also was with them, standing and warming himself.

KJV

And the servants and officers stood there, who had made a fire of coals; for it was cold: and they warmed themselves: and Peter stood with them, and warmed himself.

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Commentary

4 voices

Ambrose of Milan

Exposition on the Gospel of Luke 10.76 (397)

Let us also consider in what state he denied. "It was cold," he says. If we consider the temperature, it could not have been cold: but it was cold where Jesus was not recognized, where there was no one to see the light, where the consuming fire was denied. Therefore, it was cold of the mind, not of the body. In the end, Peter was standing by the coals, because he was chilled by emotion. The Jewish flame is wicked: it burns, not warms.

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The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

And the servants and officers stood there,.... In a certain part of the hall, the middle of it; the Vulgate Latin reads, "by the coals": it follows, who had made a fire of coals, for it was cold; though it was the passover, and harvest near.

The Nineteenth Century3 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Servants and officers - These belonged to the chief priests, etc.; the Roman soldiers had probably been dismissed after having conducted Christ to Annas.

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 3181: “A Sermon for a Winter's Evening” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1910)

WE note from this incident that it was a cold night in which our Redeemer agonized in the Garden of Gethsemane. [See Sermon #2767, Volume 48—JESUS IN GETHSEMANE.] A cold night and yet He sweat! A cold night and yet there fell from Him, not the sweat of a man who earns the staff of life, but the sweat of One who was earning life, itself. "His sweat was, as it were, great drops of blood falling down to the ground." No natural heat of the sun, or of a sultry evening caused this!

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Original language & word study

24 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
εἱστήκεισαν	heistēkeisan	Had been standing	G2476 →
δὲ	de	now	G1161 →
οἱ	hoi	the	G3588 →
δοῦλοι	douloi	servants	G1401 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
οἱ	hoi	the	G3588 →
ὑπηρέται	hupēretai	officers	G5257 →
ἀνθρακιὰν	anthrakian	a fire of coals	G439 →
πεποιηκότες,	pepoiēkotes	having made,	G4160 →
ὅτι	hoti	for	G3754 →
ψῦχος	psuchos	cold	G5592 →
ἦν,	ēn	it was	G1510 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ἐθερμαίνοντο·	ethermainonto	they were warming themselves;	G2328 →
ἦν	ēn	Was	G1510 →
δὲ	de	now	G1161 →
καὶ	kai	also	G2532 →
ὁ	ho	<the>	G3588 →
Πέτρος	Petros	Peter	G4074 →
μετ᾽	met᾽	with	G3326 →
αὐτῶν	autōn	them	G846 →
ἑστὼς	hestōs	having stood	G2476 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
θερμαινόμενος.¶	thermainomenos	warming himself.	G2328 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Mark 14:54
Peter followed Him at a distance, right into the courtyard of the high priest. And he sat with the officers and warmed himself by the fire.
leads to
- Matthew 26:3
  At that time the chief priests and elders of the people assembled in the courtyard of the high priest, whose name was Caiaphas,
- John 18:15–16
  Now Simon Peter and another disciple were following Jesus. Since that disciple was known to the high priest, he also went with Jesus into the courtyard of the high priest.
- John 18:25
  Simon Peter was still standing and warming himself. So they asked him, “Aren’t you also one of His disciples?” He denied it and said, “I am not.”
Through
John 18:25
Simon Peter was still standing and warming himself. So they asked him, “Aren’t you also one of His disciples?” He denied it and said, “I am not.”
leads to
- John 18:17–18
  At this, the servant girl watching the door said to Peter, “Aren’t you also one of this man’s disciples?” “I am not,” he answered.
- Mark 14:67–72
  and saw him warming himself there. She looked at Peter and said, “You also were with Jesus the Nazarene.”
- Matthew 26:71–75
  When Peter had gone out to the gateway, another servant girl saw him and said to the people there, “This man was with Jesus of Nazareth.”
- Mark 14:37–38
  Then Jesus returned and found them sleeping. “Simon, are you asleep?” He asked. “Were you not able to keep watch for one hour?
- Genesis 18:15
  But Sarah was afraid, so she denied it and said, “I did not laugh.” “No,” replied the LORD, “but you did laugh.”

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Where the connections lead

04Related verses

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06About John

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About John