<p>26:34&nbsp;<i>Jesus said to him: Truly I say to you, that this night</i>- Much of the Lord's knowledge and foreknowledge of events ahead of time can be explained in terms of His incredible sensitivity to others, His understanding of human psychology and behaviour patterns. But there are times when it seems He was given direct foreknowledge from the Father. And this seems one of them- to predict the exact number of denials that would be made that night, and to predict they would happen before the cock crew. This leads to the possibility that whenever He prefaces His words with &quot;Truly I say unto you...&quot;, He is stating something received by direct revelation. Another example is when He uses this rubric to introduce His prediction of how Peter would die (Jn. 21:18). This would be His equivalent of how the Old Testament prophets introduced their directly inspired words with the rubric &quot;Thus says the Lord&quot;. &quot;Truly&quot; (AV &quot;verily&quot;) is literally 'amen', as if the Lord Jesus is saying that He is aware of the words of His Father and in uttering them from His lips, is giving His personal agreement, stamp or 'Amen' to them.</p>
<p><i>Before the cock crows</i>- There is no article in the Greek. 'Before cock crow' is the idea, before the earliest sign of morning when the first cock crew, that very night, before that night even began to come to a close.&nbsp;</p>
<p><i>You shall deny me three times</i>- See on :35&nbsp;<i>Deny You</i>.</p>