Matthew Poole and continuators on Matthew 26:72

72 And again he denied with an oath, I do not know the man.

Mark hath the same, Ch. 14. v. 70. more shortly. So Luke, Ch. 22.58. It is like Peter upon the first Alarm, began to shift away, and was got into the Porch, but there another meets him, with the same Charge. Here to the former lye which he had told, and here repeateth, he adds an Oath for the Confirmation of what he had said. What are the best of Men, when God leaves them to their own strength? But the Temptation, yet riseth higher.