When the Cock Crows

<p>Three parts:</p><p><strong>Peter’s Denial</strong></p><p>What went on in his mind? How could he so easily have turned away from the one he was so eager to defend? And what happened when Jesus saw him? What remorse, what a failure. From arguing as to who was the greatest to being the most broken. In the end, his loyalty was only to himself.  For all his wild ideals, his great revelations, his encounters with Jesus on the mount of transfiguration, his special times with Jesus being taught, encouraged, from the boat encounter on Galilee, to this moment of greatest failure. Now, of all times, when Jesus needed a friend, he left him alone with his enemies. The tears are of a depth of remorse that all his values and strengths could not restore. His hope was gone. The loss was becoming clearer as he remembered the last 3 years of following Jesus and now he had failed the only one who had the words of eternal life!  Had he not David, where shall we go? We won’t leave you? The eyes of Jesus looking at him are burned into his memory, and leave him broken, lost depressed and unable to do anything. See his coward ness from the sleep of sorrow and the results of not praying about entering into temptation.</p><p><strong>The persecution of Jesus</strong></p><p>The beatings begin, the mockery, the cruel jokes and humiliation of Jesus.  His reaction is silence and allowance of these events. They blindfold him yet they are the ones who are blind. It is his willing participation in identification with us all in all our troubles and sorrows.  Peter is not left out.  His loving eyes are about to show him just how much he is committed to Peter in spite of his denial.  </p><p><strong>The first trial of Jesus: the Sanhedrin </strong></p><p>The chief priests and scribes made up the Sanhedrin. There were 71 members. These will include all those who have been interacting with Jesus who have been exposed by him, and who have been platting his death as their authority among the people has been diminished. Here is a difference in that Luke