Episode 44: April 21 - It Wasn't a Denial

Peter,

have we been wrong about you?

We have blamed you for

denying,

when all the time you were

confessing,

“I do not know the man.”

I wanted to know.

Later I would.

But then

I wanted him to be

what I wanted him to be.

And I did not know the man.

I tried to know.

“So I should forgive up to seven times?”

“Show me how to walk on the water.”

"Explain this parable to us."

He replied

"Are you also still without understanding?”

I tried to understand.

First, "You will never wash my feet."

Then, "also my hands and my head!"

“Later you will understand,” he said.

I did not know the man.

I thought I knew.

“Who do you think I am,” he asked.

“You are the Christ,

the Son of the Living God.”

He blessed me for that, though

I did not know what I was saying.

 “I am going to Jerusalem where

I will be put to death.”

“Never,” I said,

“That will not happen.”

“Get behind me,” he said.

I did not know the man.

Up on the mountain:

magnificent manifestation.

“Let me build three shrines,” I said.

I did not know the man.

They came to arrest him.

I pulled a sword.

“Put it away,” he said.

I did not know the man.

I stood by the fire.

They asked if I knew him.

I moved away.

“Surely you knew him.”

The cock crowed, and I wept

because

I did not know the man.