Matthew 26:74. Then began he to curse, or ‘to call down curses on himself,' if what he said was not true.

And to swear, to call God to witness that it was true. Probably at this time he was recognized by the kinsman of Malchus (John 18:26), who had been in the garden of Gethsemane, and doubtless in the audience room, until our Lord was brought out after the examination, or he would have seen Peter before.

And immediately a cook crew. The second cock-crowing, about three o'clock in the morning. Just then, according to Luke (Luke 22:61), our Lord ‘turned and looked on Peter.' We infer that this occurred as He was led out after the examination. Peter was in the porch, not the court. This view accounts for the fact of so many having recognized Peter there, and agrees with the requirements of time.

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