John 18:17

μὴ καὶ σύ. Art thou also (shewing that she knew his companion to be a disciple), or, surely thou also art not. see on John 4:29 and comp. John 4:33; John 6:67; John 7:47; John 9:40; where, as here, the μὴ anticipates a negative answer. S. Peter’s denial is thus put into his mouth. Τούτου and the turn of the sentence are contemptuous; John 9:16; John 9:24; John 11:47. S. John had hurried on to the room where Christ was being examined; as at the Cross (John 19:26) he kept close to his Master; and in neither case was molested. S. Peter, who ‘followed afar off’ (Luke 22:54) and that rather out of curiosity ‘to see the end’ (Matthew 26:58) than out of love, encountered temptation and fell.