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• Today's "Moment with Mark" (113)

  18 March, 2013

  Meanwhile, Peter was below in the courtyard.

  I can't by-pass Peter's denial of his Lord. It's a dominant motif of the Easter story.  But what I can do is "go into bat for Peter" because I think he has received some bad press from the pulpits in many of our churches at Easter time (and only marginally better for the rest of the year)!!

  The Chief Priests and Elders certainly took no chances regarding the arrest of Jesus. They despatched a battalion of Roman soldiers along with their own mercenaries - a mob probably in excess of 500. When that angry mob came, it was Peter who, despite impossible odds, took out his sword to defend his Master. The other disciples scattered to the 'four winds' so to speak.  

  If I had been present on that dramatic night, I suspect that I would have been one of the other ten, making good my escape and leaving Peter to fend for himself- not to mention the Lord. So, let's not write-off Peter as unworthy of our attention. It takes a lot of boldness to do what he did.

  May his tribe increase!!