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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…read moreToday's "Moment with Mark" (114)
One of the servant girls who worked for the high priest noticed Peter warming himself at the fire. She looked at him closely and then said, "You were one of those with Jesus, the Nazarene. Peter denied it." (Mark 14:66-68 NLT) Now we find Peter daring to slip past the security at the…read moreToday's "Moment with Mark" (113)
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…read moreToday's "Moment with Mark" (112)
Then some of them began to spit at him, and they blindfolded him and hit his face with their fists. "Who hit you that time, you prophet?" they jeered. And even the guards were hitting him as they led him away. (Mark 14:65) For those of us who live in a world where TV and movies have…read moreToday's "Moment with Mark" (111)
Then the high priest asked him, "Are you the Messiah, the Son of the blessed God?" Jesus said, "I am, and you will see me, the Son of Man, sitting at God's right hand in the place of power and coming back on the clouds of heaven." (Mark 14:61-62 NLT) All eyes are on the…read more
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