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the Lord Jesus told them that they would be stumbled, Peter rose up to deny it: "Lord, I am ready to go with You both to prison and to death" (Luke 22:33). Moreover, when the Lord told the disciples to be prepared to face the situation, they thought that it was necessary for them to buy swords to fight. When the Lord was about to be arrested, "those around Him, seeing what was about to happen, said, Lord, shall we strike with a sword? And a certain one of them struck the slave of the high priest and took off his right ear" (22:49-50). Here we see that the disciples immediately resisted.
After the Man-Savior was arrested, "Peter was following at a distance" (v. 54b). This is an indication that Peter would deny the Lord. Peter then sat with a number of others by the fire that was kindled in the middle of the courtyard (v. 55). This is another indication that he was about to deny the Lord. Verses 56 and 57 say, "And a certain servant girl, seeing him seated facing the light of the fire, and looking intently at him, said, This man also was with him. But he denied, saying, I do not know Him, woman!" After Peter denied the Lord two more times, a cock crowed, and "the Lord turned and looked at Peter, and Peter remembered the word of the