It turns out that Peter's betrayal of Jesus may be more devastating than I first thought. The other disciple that was with Peter was able to enter the court of the high priest because he was known to the high priest. Peter is the lesser-known of the two if you will. This disciple then graciously came back to get poor Peter. Then Peter was met at the door by a girl with this question. "You also are not one of this man's disciples, are you?" This implies that the other disciple had already admitted to being one of Christ's disciples. So Peter's friend was able to acknowledge that he followed Jesus while Peter gave into the pressure, and that in front of a girl. Seems pretty weaksauce to me. Peter goes on to deny Christ two more times in front of servants and officers. Jesus even told him beforehand that he would deny Him (John 13:38).
This man, Peter, hardly seems like the Rock that Jesus was to build His church on. That's good news for you and I because I doubt that we are that wonderful either. Yet Christ wants to do great things with our lives, after restoring us to Himself of course as He did with Peter (John 21:15-19)
Read this story in John 18:15-27 at biblegateway...
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=john%2018:15-27&version=47
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Some solid words of encouragement! I feel ya. Right on brother Ben.
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