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Did not I see thee in the garden with him? (ouk egō se eidon en tōi kēpōi met' autou). This staggering and sudden thrust expects an affirmative answer by the use of ouk, not mē as in Joh 18:17, Joh 18:25, but Peter’s previous denials with the knowledge that he was observed by a kinsman of Malchus whom he had tried to kill (Joh 18:10) drove him to the third flat denial that he knew Jesus, this time with cursing and swearing (Mar 14:71; Mat 26:73). Peter was in dire peril now of arrest himself for attempt to kill.
Straightway (eutheōs). As in Mat 26:74 while Luke has parachrēma (Luk 22:60). Mark (Mar 14:68, Mar 14:72) speaks of two crowings as often happens when one cock crows. See Mat 26:34 for alektōr (cock). That was usually the close of the third watch of the night (Mar 13:35), about 3 a.m. Luk 22:61 notes that Jesus turned and looked on Peter probably as he passed from the rooms of Annas to the trial before Caiaphas and the Sanhedrin (the ecclesiastical court). See Mrs. Browning’s beautiful sonnets on “The Look”.