Matthew 26:35 — Community Reflections

MATTHEW 26:35 — KING JAMES VERSION 0

“Peter said unto him, Though I should die with thee, yet will I not deny thee. Likewise also said all the disciples.”

Peter said to him: even if I must die with you, I will not deny you! And all the disciples said the same. Peter's escalated commitment — even unto death — and the all the disciples said the same communicates the unanimous confidence that will be equally unanimously disproven. The commitment is genuine at the moment of speaking; the failure is equally genuine when the moment arrives.

Church Fathers on Matthew 26:35

When the disciples had eaten the bread of blessing, and drunk of the cup of thanksgiving, the Lord instructs them in return for these things to sing a hymn to the Father. And they go to the Mount of Olives, that they may pass from height to height, because the believer can do nought in the valley.
Origen · 3rd century

and Rabanus , below, and more further on) between the brackets are not found in the earlier Editions of the Catena, in the ED. PR. nor the Bodl. MS. They appear to have been inserted by Nicolai.]
Bede · 8th century

This hymn may be that thanksgiving which in John, Our Lord offers up to the Father, when He lifted up His eyes and prayed for His disciples, and those who should believe through their word. This is that of which the Psalm speaks, 'The poor shall eat and be filled, they shall praise the Lord.' Ps 22:26]
Rabanus Maurus · 9th century

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