36. Dicit et Simon Petrus: 36. Simon Peter saith to him: Domine, quo vadis? Respondit Lord whither goest thou? Jesus Iesus: Quo ego vado, non potes answered: Whither I go, thou me modo sequi: sequeris autem canst not follow me now, but postea. thou shalt follow hereafter. 36. St. Peter, all absorbed in Christ’s words, (verse 33), which signified that he was to be separated from his Divine Master, asks: *Lord, whither ** goest thou?* Christ’s reply means that He was going to His Father, whither Peter should one day follow, though he could not follow then. *Thou shalt follow hereafter.* These words implied Peter’s final perseverance and salvation. 37. Dicit ei Petrus: Quare non 37. Peter saith to him: Why possum te sequi modo? animam cannot I follow thee now? I meam pro te ponam. will lay down my life for thee. 37. St. Peter, not understanding Christ’s reply, and thinking that He meant to go to some place of danger, testifies his readiness to die for Christ, and hence, he implies, to follow Him anywhere. 38. Respondit ei Iesus: Animam 38. Jesus answered him: Wilt tuam pro me pones? Amen, amen thou lay down thy life for me? dico tibi: non cantabit Amen, amen, I say to thee, the gallus, donec ter me neges. cock shall not crow, till thou deny me thrice. 38. Christ replies, rebuking Peter’s boastful confidence, and declaring that so far was Peter from being ready at that time to die for Him, that before cockcrow he would deny Him thrice. We believe that our Lord _twice_ on this night predicted the denials by Peter: once in the supper‐room, as recorded by St. John here, and by St. Luke (xxii. 34), and again on the way to Gethsemane, as recorded by St. Matt. (xxvi. 30‐34), and St. Mark (xiv. 26‐30). By the latter Evangelists the prophecy of Peter’s denial is distinctly placed on the way to Gethsemane, and connected with the prophecy of the general desertion of the Apostles. This latter prophecy, it may well be, called forth from Peter a second expression of his fearless attachment to his Master, and this was followed in turn by a second reference to Peter’s denials.