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Joh_18:25-27. When Jesus was sent to Caiaphas, Peter was still on the spot mentioned in Joh_18:18, standing and warming himself. There follow his second and third denials, which, therefore, according to the brief and accurate narrative of John, who relates the denials generally with more precision, took place likewise in the court of Annas. The text gives no indication that Peter followed Jesus into the house of Caiaphas. Comp. Olshausen, Baur, Bleek. For the agreement of Luke with John in the locality of the denials, but not in the more minute determination of time, see on Luk_22:54-62.
εἶπον ] Those standing there with him, Joh_18:18.
The individual, Joh_18:26, assails him with his own eye-witness.
ἐγώ ] I, for my part.
ἐν τῷ κήπῳ ] sc. ὄντα . The slave outside the garden (for, see on Joh_18:4) has been able, over the fence or through the door of the garden, to see Peter in the garden with Jesus. When the blow with the sword was struck, he cannot (in the confusion of the seizure of Jesus) have had his eye upon him, otherwise he would have certainly reproached him with this act.
ἀλέκτωρ ] a cock. See on Mat_26:74. The contrition of Peter, John does not here relate in his concise account; but all the more thoughtfully and touchingly does this universally known psychological fact receive historical expression in the appendix, chap. 21.[217]
[217] Which, indeed (see Scholten, p. 382), is alleged to he a mistake of the appendix, the writer of which did not see through the (anti-Petrine) tendency of the Gospel.