Tuesday, May 21, 2019

A story not told

There's a story I look forward to hearing someday. In Mark 16 we read about the angel saying to the women to "tell his disciples and tell Peter." In Luke we read about the Eleven saying "It is true! The Lord has really risen and has appeared to Simon." And in John we read the touching story of Jesus meeting Peter and several others, and asking if Peter loves Him.

John is famously not entirely chronological, but he specifies that the latter scene is "after" appearing to the other eleven, and therefore presumably well after the Emmaus trip. And Peter is with other disciples, and not separate, as is implied in the Mark passage.

So I'm guessing there was another meeting, in between Luke 24:12 and Luke 24:34, in which Jesus appeared to Peter. I wonder what was spoken, and what was communicated. It brought Peter back to the rest.

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