Jesus said to him, “Truly, I tell you, this very night, before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.”
Peter saith unto him,.... Mark says, "he spake the more vehemently", Mar 14:31; his spirits were raised to a greater pitch of resentment, and he expressed himself in stronger terms, and in more peremptory and self-confident language, though I should die with thee, yet will I not deny thee: he seems to have understood Christ, that he should suffer death, and that he would be...
Verse 34. This night. This was in the evening when this was spoken, after the observance of the passover, and we may suppose near nine o'clock. Before the cock crow. Mark and Luke add, before the cock crow twice. The cock is accustomed to crow twice, once at midnight, and once in the morning, at break of day. The latter was commonly called cock-crowing. See .
[Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice.] The same also he had said, John 13:38, "The cock shall not crow till thou hast denied me thrice." Therefore some say, that that was the same supper with this of the Passover. Very right indeed, if [it] ought to be rendered, the cock shall not crow once, or the cock shall not crow at all.