The Rooster Crowed
Then the men arrested Jesus and led him away. They took him into
the high priest's house. Peter followed from far away. They started a fire in
the middle of the courtyard. Then they sat down together. Peter sat down with
them.
A
female servant saw him sitting there in the firelight. She looked closely at
him. Then she said, "This man was with Jesus."
But
Peter said he had not been with him. "Woman, I don't know him," he
said.
A
little later someone else saw Peter. "You also are one of them," he
said.
"No,"
Peter replied. "I'm not!"
About
an hour later, another person spoke up. "This fellow must have been with
Jesus," he said. "He is from
Peter
replied, "Man, I don't know what you're talking about!"
Just
as he was speaking, the rooster crowed. The Lord turned and looked right at
Peter. Then Peter remembered what the Lord had spoken to him. "The rooster
will crow today," Jesus had said. "Before it does, you will say three
times that you don't know me." Peter went outside. He broke down and
sobbed.
Luke 22:54-62
The
tears of Peter were of shame and of repentance. After the resurrection of
Jesus, Peter was restored by Jesus.
The way back to God begins with a broken heart.
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