Matthew 26:72 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Ver. 71,72. Mark hath the same, Mark 14:70, more shortly. So Luke, Luke 22:58. It is like Peter, upon the first alarm, began to shift away, and was got into the porch, but there another meets him with the same charge. Here, to the former lie which he had told, and here repeateth, he adds an oath for the confirmation of what he had said. What are the best of men, when God leaves them to their own strength! But the temptation yet riseth higher.

Matthew 26:72

72 And again he denied with an oath, I do not know the man.