Knowing Better

Dicit ei iterum: Simon Joannis, diligis me? Ait illi: Etiam Domine, tu scis quia amo te. Dicit ei Petrus, jam firmus ut petra, non vacillans ad vocem ancillae, Etiam, Domine hoc est, Ita, Domine. Non audet Petrus invocare conscientiam propriam in qua prius deceptus fuit: sed Domini conscientiam invocat, dicens: Tu scis, Domine, quia amo te. Ac si dicat: Tu nosti plus quam ego. Tu, Domine, qui corda nosti omnium, ostende quem elegeris. Sanctus Albertus Magnus, Commentarium in Joannem, Caput XXI Source: Here, p336

Again He said to him, 'Simon, son of John, do you love me?' He said to him: 'Indeed, Lord, you know that I love you.' 1 'He said to him.' Peter, now firm as a rock, not wavering as at the voice of the maid-servant, says, 2 'Indeed, Lord,' that is, 'So it is, Lord.' Peter does not dare invoke his own conscience in which he was deceived before, but he invokes the conscience of the Lord, saying, 'You know,' Lord, 'that I love you.' As if he said, 'You know better than I.' 'You, O Lord, who know all hearts, show the one whom you have chosen.' 3 Saint Albert The Great, Commentary On The Gospel of St John, Chapter 21 1 Jn 21.16 2 Mt 26.69-75 3 Acts 1.24