But Peter followed him afar off unto the high priest's palace, and went in, and sat with the servants, to see the end.
All Commentaries on Matthew 26:58 Go To Matthew 26
Jerome
AD 420
It is folly then to seek with swords and staves Him who offers Himself to your hands, and with a traitor to hunt out, as though lurking under cover of night, one who is daily teaching in the temple.
“They pierced my hands and my feet;” .
But Josephus writes , that this Caiaphas had purchased the priesthood of a single year, notwithstanding that Moses, at God's command, had directed that High Priests should succeed hereditarily, and that in the Priests likewise succession by birth should be followed up. No wonder then that an unrighteous High Priest should judge unrighteously.
He went in, either out of the attachment of a disciple, or natural curiosity, seeking to know what sentence the High Priest would pass, whether death, or scourging.
