Peter's Blunder: A Short Lesson
If you're like me, you've been enjoying The Chosen as a great binge substitute. I especially love how the portray the twelve and give them their own unique personalities while also trying to stay biblicaly accurate. I specifically enjoy seeing Peter's character develop, even if they do extrapolate a little bit. Speaking of Peter, my quiet time was in John 18 this morning, which records Gethsemene through Jesus's arrest from John's perspective - a perspective that's important to identify, given that John witnessed firsthand just about everything he writes, especially this chapter. I won't take you through it all, but most of us who are fairly familiar with the Gospel, know that with Jesus's arrest come Peter denying that he knows Jesus three times before the rooster crows, as Jesus predicted. What struck me today, was that - as John reminds us - denying Christ was Peter's second failure. All four accounts of the Gospel mention that one of the di