Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Matthew 26:1-75
Name and Surname Matthew 26:6 Why these surnames? We do not want them, we do not like them; but there they are. Why not say 'Simon,' and let his identification be established by other means than by recalling the loathsomeness of the disease? Why these expansions of names, why these fringes and attachments? Why not identify men by something better than leprosy, or evil deed, or red shame of any kind? We fall here upon a very profitable scene of investigation and instruction. There seems to be... read more
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Matthew 26:69
(69) Now Peter sat without in the palace.—Better, had sat down in the court. The word rendered “palace” here and in Matthew 26:58, is strictly the court-yard or quadrangle round which a house was built. It may be well to bring together the order of the Apostle’s thrice-repeated denials.(1) On his entry into the court-yard of the palace, in answer to the female slave who kept the door (John 18:17).(2) As he sat by the fire warming himself, in answer (a) to another damsel (Matthew 26:69) and (b)... read more