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Mark 14:54

Eastern Fathers

Theophylact of Ohrid

Peter, however, showing the most fervent love for the Teacher, followed after Christ.

Commentary on Mark ↗

Western Saints

Bede

For charity is the fire of which it is said, I am come to send fire on the earth, (Luke 12:49) which flame coming down on the believers, taught them to speak with various tongues the praise of the Lord. There is also a fire of covetousness, of which it is said, They are all adulterers as an oven; (Hosea 7:4) this fire, raised up in the hall of Caiaphas by the suggestion of an evil spirit, was arming the tongues of the traitors to deny and blaspheme the Lord. …

Catena Aurea by Aquinas ↗