PrintToday's "Moment with Mark" (115)
20 March, 2013
Peter denied it. "I don't know what you're talking about," he said, and he went out into the entryway. Just then, a rooster crowed. The servant girl saw him standing there and began telling the others, "That man is definitely one of them!" Peter denied it again. (Mark 14:68-70 NLT)
I am writing this article while out at a friend's farm. It's lovely and quiet - except for that wretched rooster! I could gladly go out and strangle the feathered foghorn!! Such a piercing sound! It surely grabs one's attention as it penetrates these old eardrums.
Both the sound and significance of a rooster crowing did not escape Peter on that night in which Jesus was betrayed. He was caught off guard the first time he was challenged by that servant girl. He didn't have time to think. His immecdiate response was to simply to deny her allegation....and his association with the Lord.
That's once.
Suddenly, there she was again. But this time she is with others and she is pointing at him and emphatically accusing Peter of being a disciple of the Nazarene.
It was one thing to have some insignificant little upstart accuse him of being a disciple of Jesus but when that voice threatens to become two voices...three voices and so on, the pressure increases. For Peter, he is becoming the focus of unwanted attention. Again, this servant girl is gaining an audience that Peter can do without. The girl makes the same accusation. Peter makes the same response. He denies any association with the Nazarene.
That's twice.
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