Luke 22:55-62
Peter sat down among them. Then a servant girl, seeing him as he sat in the light and looking closely at him, said, “This man also was with him.” But he denied it, saying, “Woman, I do not know him.” And a little later someone else saw him and said, “You also are one of them.” But Peter said, “Man, I am not.” And after an interval of about an hour still another insisted, saying, “Certainly this man also was with him, for he too is a Galilean.” But Peter said, “Man, I do not know what you are talking about.” And immediately, while he was still speaking, the rooster crowed. And the Lord turned and looked at Peter. And Peter remembered the saying of the Lord, how he had said to him, “Before the rooster crows today, you will deny me three times.” And he went out and wept bitterly.
After his baptism, and upon returning from forty days in
the desert, Jesus began attracting followers.
It was common for rabbis to have disciples, is that what
the twelve apostles were to Jesus? Were they chosen
to be witnesses? to learn? To be priests?
Were they ordinary people?
Were they like me?
I imagine how I would feel after three years of love and experience with the most amazing person ever, thinking that the Kingdom of God was arriving into the world, and suddenly He is captured and tortured to death.
Even worse, I turn my back on him out of fear and weakness.
Empty.
Lost.
Hopeless.