And he went out and wept bitterly.
Parallel translations
- WEB He went out, and wept bitterly.
- KJV And Peter went out, and wept bitterly.
- BSB And he went outside and wept bitterly.
- NKJV So Peter went out and wept bitterly.
- NLT And Peter left the courtyard, weeping bitterly.
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Peter goes out and weeps bitterly. His tears mark genuine, godly sorrow over his sin.
Overview
Overcome by his betrayal of Jesus, Peter departs and weeps in deep grief. His bitter weeping reflects true repentance rather than mere regret. This sorrow distinguishes him from Judas and opens the way to the forgiveness and recommissioning Jesus will later grant.
Cross-references & the web
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- Matt 26:75Peter remembered the word which Jesus had said to him, “Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.” He went out and wept bitterly.
- 1 Cor 10:12Therefore let him who thinks he stands be careful that he doesn’t fall.
- Ps 38:18For I will declare my iniquity. I will be sorry for my sin.
- Ps 130:1–4A Song of Ascents. Out of the depths I have cried to you, Yahweh.
- Ezek 7:16But those of those who escape will escape, and will be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, everyone in his iniquity.
- Matt 5:4Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
- Ps 126:5–6Those who sow in tears will reap in joy.
- Jer 31:18“I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untrained calf: turn me, and I shall be turned; for you are Yahweh my God.
- 2 Cor 7:9–11I now rejoice, not that you were made sorry, but that you were made sorry to repentance. For you were made sorry in a godly way, that you might suffer loss by us in nothing.
- Mark 14:72The rooster crowed the second time. Peter remembered the word, how that Jesus said to him, “Before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times.” When he thought about that, he wept.
- Ps 143:1–4A Psalm by David. Hear my prayer, Yahweh. Listen to my petitions. In your faithfulness and righteousness, relieve me.
- Zech 12:10I will pour on David’s house, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will look to me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves for his firstborn.
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