“Did I not see you in the garden with Him?”
That’s the question put to Peter by one of the high priest’s servants (John 18:26). In years past, I had given more attention to Peter’s denial — his third in John’s account — than the question. But the question has a deep biblical resonance. One could imagine St. John thinking about the whole of salvation history as he drafted that chapter, with Peter standing in for the entire human race.
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