And the second time the cock crew. And Peter called to mind the word that Jesus said unto him, Before the cock crow twice, thou shalt deny me thrice. And when he thought thereon, he wept.
Ver. 72. And when he thought thereon] Or adding to his grief, proportioning his sorrow to his sin; a or, throwing his garment over his head (which was the garb of deep mourners,2 Samuel 15:30; Ezr 6:12), so Theophylact expounds it. Or, prorupit in fletum, he burst out and wept. That is an impudent fable, that, long after this, he solicited the blessed virgin, after her assumption, to intercede to Christ for pardon of his thrice denying him, and that Christ thereupon made him and his successors his vicars here, &c. As Xaverius reporteth in Peter's life, written by him in the Persian language.
a Augens, id est, abunde flevit, επιβαλων .