Peter said unto him, Though I should die with thee, yet will I not deny thee. Likewise also said all the disciples.
Ver. 35. Though I should die with thee] Quot verba tot absurda, as one saith of Peter's proposition of three tabernacles, &c. Sure it is he knew as little what he said here as there: how much more considerately those martyrs, who both said it and did it? "The heavens shall as soon fall, as I will forsake my faith," said William Flower. And "if every hair of my head were a man, I would suffer death in the opinion and faith that I am now in," said John Ardely.
Likewise also said all the disciples] Misled, as Barnabas afterward was, Gal 2:11-13 by Peter's example. "The leaders of this people cause them to err," Isaiah 9:16. Our Saviour (to teach us what to do in like case) striveth not with them for the last word; but lets them enjoy their own overly good conceits of themselves, till time should confute them.