SUFFERING KING: THE BOOK OF MARK:
Hiding In Plain Sight: Mark 14:66-72
Pastor John Nicholas
Sunday June 13, 2021
15 Simon Peter was following Jesus, and so was another disciple. Now that disciple was known to the high priest, and he entered with Jesus into the courtyard of the high priest,
16 but Peter was standing at the door outside. So the other disciple, who was known to the high priest, went out and spoke to the doorkeeper, and brought Peter in.
Peter’s Denials
66 And while Peter was below in the courtyard, one of the slave women of the high priest *came,
67 and seeing Peter warming himself, she looked at him and *said, “You were with Jesus the Nazarene as well.”
13 But all things become visible when they are exposed by the light, for everything that becomes visible is light.
68 But he denied it, saying, “I neither know nor understand what you are talking about.” And he went out onto the porch.
69 The slave woman saw him, and began once more to say to the bystanders, “This man is one of them!”
70 But again he denied it. And after a little while the bystanders were again saying to Peter, “You really are one of them, for you are a Galilean as well.”
71 But he began to curse himself and to swear, “I do not know this man of whom you speak!”
72 And immediately a rooster crowed a second time. And Peter remembered how Jesus had made the remark to him, “Before a rooster crows twice, you will deny Me three times.” And he hurried on and began to weep.
32 but I have prayed for you, that your faith will not fail; and you, when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers.”
18 The one who believes in Him is not judged; the one who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.
19 And this is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the Light; for their deeds were evil.
20 For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light, so that his deeds will not be exposed.
21 But the one who practices the truth comes to the Light, so that his deeds will be revealed [a]as having been performed in God.”
12 For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, even penetrating as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
18 But someone may well say, “You have faith and I have works; show me your faith without the works, and I will show you my faith by my works.”
18 There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected in love. 19 We love, because He first loved us.
Pray, Observe, Apply.
