Peter said to him, “Even though they all fall away, I will not.”
In these verses we have, I. Christ's eating the passover with his disciples, the night before he died, with the joys and comforts of which ordinance he prepared himself for his approaching sorrows, the full prospect of which did not indispose him for that solemnity.
Commenting on Mark 14:12-31
And Jesus saith unto him, verily I say unto thee,.... As confident as thou art of standing by me, and abiding with me; that this day, which was then begun; for the Jews reckoned their days from evening, as in Gen 1:5; even in this night; this night to be observed, this night of the passover, before it is past: before the cock crow twice...
But Peter said unto him, Although all shall be offended, yet [will] not I. (9) Here is set forth in an excellent person a most sorrowful example of man's rashness and weakness.