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Jesus answered him, “Will you lay down your life for me? Most certainly I tell you, the rooster won’t crow until you have denied me three times.
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Verse 38. The love which Saint Peter bore our Saviour was exceedingly tender, but it was not yet sufficiently strong. Saint Bernard Serm. iv. in Cant.—Jesus therefore asks him, Wilt thou lay down thy life for me? Do you think yourselves sufficiently strong to perform this heroic act for love of me? so far are you from exposing your life for me, that you will shortly deny me. Menochius.
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