Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary (4 vols)

Matthew 26:75

Matthew 26:75. And Peter remembered. His memory was helped by our Lord's look of reproachful love (comp. Mark 14:72).

The word of Jesus (Matthew 26:34).

And he went out, i.e., from the porch into the street. His departure was not to save himself from his perilous position, but to be alone in his grief. He did not go out into ‘black night,' for it was moonlight still.

And wept bitterly. Tears of true penitence. The repentance of Judas led him back to the priests, with money in his hand; the repentance of Peter led him to God with tears in his eyes. ‘A small matter (a mean servant) makes us fall when God does not support us; a small matter (the crowing of a cock) raises us again, when His grace makes use of it' (Quesnel).

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Matthew 26:75

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