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17. μὴ καὶ σύ. Art thou also (shewing that she knew his companion to be a disciple), or, surely thou also art not. see on Joh 4:29 and comp. Joh 4:33, Joh 6:67, Joh 7:47, Joh 9:40; where, as here, the μὴ anticipates a negative answer. S. Peter’s denial is thus put into his mouth. Τούτου and the turn of the sentence are contemptuous; Joh 9:16; Joh 9:24, Joh 11:47. S. John had hurried on to the room where Christ was being examined; as at the Cross (Joh 19:26) he kept close to his Master; and in neither case was molested. S. Peter, who ‘followed afar off’ (Luk 22:54) and that rather out of curiosity ‘to see the end’ (Mat 26:58) than out of love, encountered temptation and fell.