simon peter cut off the high priest's ear.
simon peter cut off the high priest's ear.
who cut off the high priest's ear?
simon peter
simon peter and another disciple were following jesus. because this disciple was known to the high priest, he went with jesus into the high priest’s courtyard, but peter had to wait outside at the door. the other disciple, who was known to the high priest, came back, spoke to the girl on duty there and brought peter in. "you are not one of his disciples, are you?" the girl at the door asked peter. he replied, "i am not." ... as simon peter stood warming himself, he was asked, "you are not one of his disciples, are you?" he denied it, saying, "i am not." one of the high priest's servants, a relative of the man whose ear peter had cut off, challenged him, "didn't i see you with him in the olive grove?" again peter denied it, and at that moment a rooster began to crow.
denial of peter
bullet::::- "and set them upon the head of joshua the son of josedech the high priest": joshua the high priest, on whose head a fair mitre was set; see and with the mitre was wore by the high priest the holy crown, made of pure gold; and which was no other than the plate or "flower" of gold, on which was engraved "holiness to the lord", and this, according to the jewish writers, was a plate of gold two fingers broad, and reached from ear to ear; though josephus seems to give a different account of it; he says, ""the golden crown surrounds (either the mitre, or perhaps rather the forehead or temples); and on it were three rows of cups or flowers, like those of the herb we call "saccharus"; and the grecian botanists "hyosciamus";"" or "henbane"; and after describing the herb, and the figure of the buds, cups, or flowers of it, he adds, ""like to these is made a crown reaching from the hinder part of the head unto both temples; for the flowers do not encompass the forehead; but there is a golden plate, which has the name of god engraved in sacred letters;"" which seems to disagree with the accounts of other jewish writers; unless, as braunius observes, they may be thus reconciled, that "the crown was nothing else but the plate that was two fingers broad, and was in length from ear to ear; so that about the temples it was ornamented with three rows of henbane flowers on each side: and these three rows may give occasion for the use of the word in the plural number"; and some have called it a "triple crown"; and popish writers fail not to improve it in favour of the crown their pontiff wears; and lyra speaks of "little crowns" or "coronets", even in the "mitres" of the common priests; which (he says) "were circles in the lower part of them" so called; wherefore the rows of flowers in the high priest's crown, from whence it might be called a flower, might with more propriety bear that name. philo the jew, speaking of the golden plate, says it was like a crown engraven with four letters of the name (jehovah); and further observes, that ""the mitre under it kept the plate from touching the head, on which the "cidaris" or diadem was put; for it was like the cidaris which the eastern kings used for a diadem:"" and indeed this crown, and the three rows of flowers in it, were a hieroglyphic or emblem of the threefold office of jesus christ, whom the high priest represented, kingly, priestly, and prophetic; and so may be fitly signified here by crowns in the plural number; and it is usual with the jewish writers to speak of three crowns, the crown of the law, the crown of the kingdom, and the crown of the priesthood; and very probably from the high priest among the jews wearing crowns it was that the priests among the heathens had the same ornaments on their heads; and to be crowned was with them the same as to exercise the office of priesthood, and who was an eminent type of the messiah, and in this of having crowns put upon his head, as the following words show.
zechariah 6