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Joh 13:36. [342] ΠΈΤΡΟς, Peter) Peter speaks in this place, then Thomas, then Philip, then Judas, ch. Joh 14:5; Joh 14:8; Joh 14:22, then all the disciples, ch. Joh 16:29. [Those very interlocutory speeches, noted down in ch, 14., seem to imply that Peter and John had not returned, and that the paschal lamb had not yet been got ready. And though this be so, John had no less power to describe the speeches (subjects) contained in that chapter, than had Luke those in his ch. Luke 1., etc. Would any one readily venture to describe those speeches, even though he had heard or read them a hundred times? It (the power) was divinely given to the sacred winters. But if you are of opinion, that the discourse which meets us in ch. 14. was delivered before that Peter and John had departed into the city, no doubt the series of the remaining parts of the narrative is not disarranged thereby: however, the rest of the discourse, on this supposition, will have to be separated from the short clause, Arise, etc., ch. Joh 14:31.-Harm., p. 506, etc.]-ποῦ, whither) Joh 13:33, “Ye shall seek Me; as I said unto the Jews, Whither I go, ye cannot come; so now I say to you.” Peter was asking the question, as one who was supposing that he could follow the Lord. The heart of Peter had clung close to Jesus: ch. Joh 6:68, “Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of eternal life;” Joh 21:7, “When Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he girt his fisher’s coat unto him, and did cast himself into the sea.”-ἀπεκρίθη, answered) To the question whither, He answers, after an interval, ch. Joh 14:2, “In My Father’s house, etc., I go to prepare a place for you,” etc., 12, “I go unto My Father,” 28, Joh 16:5, “Now I go My way to Him that sent Me.”-οὐ δύνασαι, thou canst not) Neither did the circumstances admit of it, nor the weakness of Peter; but Peter has regard to this latter alone in his objection in reply. Peter did ‘follow,’ ch. Joh 18:15 [at Jesus’ apprehension], but it was “afar off” [Mat 26:58], and not without loss to himself.-ἀκολουθήσεις, thou shalt follow) ch. Joh 21:19; Joh 21:22, “This (as to “another girding him”) spake Jesus, signifying by what death Peter should glorify God. And when He had spoken this, He saith unto Him, Follow Me.”-“If I will that he (John) tarry till I come, what is that to thee? Follow thou Me.”
[342] ἐν ἀλλήλοις, among yourselves, one toward the other) Men of the world love one another mutually, ch. Joh 15:19, “If ye were of the world, the world would love his own.” The disciples of Christ much more love mutually and are beloved. The men of the world account the disciples of Christ as an object of hatred: therefore he who cherishes love towards the latter, is himself a disciple.-V. g.