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DEV:The look of love
It happened on the night of the Last Supper. Jesus was eating with
His disciples and teaching them. His last lesson was intended to show
them how much they needed His power. As their last hours together stole
quickly past, Jesus suddenly called out to Simon Peter.
"Simon, Simon behold, Satan has demanded permission to sift you like
wheat!"
Peter answered, "Lord with you I am ready to go both to prison and
to death!"
Jesus replied, "I tell you Peter, the rooster will not crow until
you have denied three times that you know me."
Simon felt ashamed that Jesus would say such a thing about him. He
kept on telling the Lord that he would never deny Him. Soon all the
other disciples joined in. They all promised that they would never deny
Jesus.
After the meal, Jesus took the disciples to a garden to pray. All of
the disciples fell asleep and left Jesus to pray all alone. After they
had been sleeping for an hour or so they awoke to hear the rough voices
of soldiers who were surrounding Jesus with lanterns.
Peter jumped up and swung his sword at the nearest man to him. He
wanted to prove that he would never deny Jesus. The soldiers wanted to
arrest the disciples but Jesus asked that they be let go. The soldiers
marched Jesus away and Peter followed so that no one could see him. He
didn't know how he could help Jesus but he was determined not to deny
Him.
Jesus was taken to the house of the high priest. The soldiers took
Him right in to be questioned. It seemed like everything was planned to
make it easy to arrest Jesus. At night there would not be crowds of
people to complain that they wanted Jesus to be let go. Peter thought
to himself that it was too late to do anything to help Jesus now. Peter
heard yelling inside the high priest's house. He started to be afraid.
For the rest of the night he let the devil suggest fearful thoughts
to him. Three times he denied to the people standing outside the house
that he knew Jesus. Just as he was saying he did not know Jesus for the
third time he saw the soldiers leading Jesus out of the house. As he
walked past, Jesus turned and looked at Peter with a gentle but grieved
look on His face. A rooster started crowing. The high priest had kept
Jesus up all night questioning Him while the devil had kept Peter
fearful all night as he sifted his heart. Peter went out into the dark
and cried but it was the look of love on the face of Jesus that brought
Peter back out of the darkness later and helped him to control his
tongue.
Taken from Luke 22:14-62