Skill Required to Keep Up a Lie
Matthew 26:69-75
Now Peter sat without in the palace: and a damsel came to him, saying, You also were with Jesus of Galilee.…


A Spanish proverb declares that " for an honest man half his wits is enough, while the whole are too little for a knave; " the ways, that is, as Archbishop Trench expounds the adage, of truth and uprightness, are so simple and plain, that a little wit is abundantly sufficient for those who walk in them; whereas the ways of falsehood and fraud are so perplexed and tangled, that sooner or later all the wit of the cleverest rogue will not preserve him from being entangled therein — a truth often wonderfully confirmed in the lives of evil men.

(F. Jacox.)



Parallel Verses
KJV: Now Peter sat without in the palace: and a damsel came unto him, saying, Thou also wast with Jesus of Galilee.

WEB: Now Peter was sitting outside in the court, and a maid came to him, saying, "You were also with Jesus, the Galilean!"




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