PETER DENIES JESUS AGAIN JOHN

 John  19:25-27 Peter was still standing there keeping himself warm. So the other officer said to him,

“Aren’t you also one of the disciples of that man?” But Peter denied it. “No, I am not,” he said.  One of the High Priest’s slaves, a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, spoke up. “Didn’t I see you with him in the garden?” he asked.  Again Peter said “No” – and at once a cock crowed. 

Prayer for Mercy:

Lord, look upon us from heaven where you live in your holiness and glory. Where is your great concern for us? Where is your power? Where are you love and compassion? Do not ignore us. You are our father. Our ancestors Abraham and Jacob do not acknowledge us, but you, Lord are our father, the one who has always rescued us. Why do you let us stray from your ways?

Why do you make us so stubborn that we turn away from you?  Come back, for the sake of those who serve you, for the sake of the people who have always been yours. Isaiah 63:15-17

ANNAS THE HIGH PRIEST QUESTIONS JESUS

The High Priest questioned Jesus about his disciples and about his teaching. Jesus answered, “I have always spoken publicly to everyone; all my teaching was done in the synagogues and in the Temple, where all the people come together. I have never said anything in secret. Why, then, do you question me? Question the people who heard me. Ask them what I told them – they know what I said.”

When Jesus said this, one of the guards there slapped him and said “How dare you talk like that to the High Priest!”

Jesus answered him, “If I have said anything wrong, tell everyone here what it was. But if  I am right in what I have said, why do you hit me?”

Then Annas sent him, still bound to Caiaphas the High Priest. 

John 18:19-24

 The disciple well known to the High Priest could not use his influence to save Christ; in this view, they are all guilty of betrayal. Nobody could stop what was destined as predicted by Ciaiphas. Peter was the only one that made effort to save His Master, he was the one that spoke about making altars at the transfiguration, he was the only that tried to dissuade Jesus from embarking on the mission of His crucifixion out of ignorance of what was pre-destined, he was the one who openly confessed Christ identity. Peter tried. It was as if he was alone trying to defend His Master out of love; but John was the beloved disciple probably because of his closeness as His cousin gave him the privilege to be the beloved apostle. (Matt. 26:71-75, Mark 14:69-2, Luke 22:58-62)