\u201cFollow up comments on Peter and Easter\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
Brother Boylan is inclined to disagree with Brother Ostler on the grounds that \u201cthe Greek can be read as either a command or a prophecy, but Peter\u2019s subsequent actions (his remorse after his three-fold denial of Christ [Matt 26:75]) as well as the need for Him to affirm his love for Jesus three times in John 21:15-17 (reminiscent of his three-fold denial of Christ) forces me to hold that Jesus was predicting, not commanding, Peter\u2019s denial.\u201d<\/p>\n
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I see the force of Brother Boylan\u2019s reservation, and he may well be right. \u00a0However, I\u2019ve long entertained at least the possibility of the same view of the story that Brother Ostler expresses, and I\u2019m not absolutely sure that Matthew 26:75 and John 21:15-17 rule it out. \u00a0I can easily imagine a man of Peter\u2019s dedication and courage feeling terrible about his three-fold denial even if he also felt that it was his obligation to do it. \u00a0And I think it may have been<\/em> his obligation: \u00a0The leadership of the Church was to fall upon him after Christ\u2019s death. \u00a0He knew that. \u00a0And he knew that getting himself arrested and very likely executed in the wake of a grand but futile gesture would serve no useful purpose but, indeed, might put the future of the Church at risk.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
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\u00a0 \u00a0 First off, an interesting 1970-1971 speech by\u00a0Elder Spencer W. Kimball of the Council of the Twelve (who, of course, later went on to serve as president of the Church): \u00a0 \u201cPeter, My Brother\u201d \u00a0 Then a note on the story by Blake Osler that was brought to my notice by Robert Boylan: \u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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