Jesus Tells How Peter Will Lie about Him 31The Lord said,“Simon, Simon, listen! Satan has wanted to have you. He will divide you as wheat is divided from that which is no good.32But I have prayed for you. I have prayed that your faith will be strong and that you will not give...
In the Upper Room, Luke tells us that Jesus had the following conversation with Peter. "'simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift you as wheat. But I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers.'' ...
Jesus tells Peter how blessed he is to have a revealing from God The Father which cannot come from human beings. There is no record of Peter having a dream or a vision to reveal this to him. Peter understood the answer because he had been living with Jesus! The truth about Jesus always...
How can this be? If He is Peter’s Lord and Peter tells Him no, then is he really Peter’s Lord? I am not saying that Peter was not saved, but to tell Jesus no is to not be making Him the Lord of your life. Again, No, Lord! Just before Jesus went to Calvary to die for ...
Jesus tells Peter what will happen 31Jesus then said, ‘Simon, Simon, be careful to listen to me! Satan has asked to have authority over you all. He will shake you as a farmer shakes seeds.[c]32But I have prayed for you, Simon, that you will continue to believe in me. And this...
Matthew 18:21-22Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times? 22 Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven. ...
he asked Peter. “Watch and pray so that you will not enter into a test. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.” He went away a second time and prayed, “My Father, if it is not possible for this cup to be taken away unless I drink it, may your will be done.” ...
(1 Peter 2:1-7) may be a fantastic metaphor in English, but in Hebrew it's perfectly native realism: these relationships are baked into the language itself, and were true long before anybody's story even started. The word for stone isאבן('eben). The word for father isא...
he is moving towards life imprisonment for the Gospel’s sake and will never again be a free man. As he prepares to journey to Jerusalem, his fate is confirmed by prophetic signs. He is convinced enough that he tells the believers in Ephesus and Caesarea that they will never see him ...
“I shall remember this hour of peace,” he tells them. “The strawberries, the bowl of milk, your faces in the dusk, Michael asleep, Jof with his lute. I shall remember our words, and shall bear this memory between my hands as carefully as a bowl of fresh milk. And this will be...