About an hour later another asserted, "Certainly this fellow was with Him, for he is a Galilean." - Luke 22:59
Gotta give it to Peter. He doesn't give up. Right at the start of the evening, two people call him out. A lot of people might have thought to leave at that moment. Not Peter. He's there an hour later and interrogated again.
Were most of the people who followed Jesus Galileans? I was kind of under the impression that they came from all over. But, maybe that's how they knew from the start. But, did Galileans look a lot different from anyone else?
Those were just sidebars. What really relates is the "doing something that you know you shouldn't, you forget and then something triggers you and you feel horrible." I go through a day and realize later I was supposed - ok, I can't think of a specific situation.
But, Jesus told Peter he would do this. And if Peter were thinking straight, there is no way he would deny Jesus. But he does, and he keeps on doing it. Maybe it was the pressure, maybe he was scared, maybe he was tired. Whatever the case, he just keeps doing what Jesus said he would do. And then the rooster crows and he remembers.
The worst feeling in the world.
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