"Peter was standing with them, warming himself ..."

After Jesus had said these things, he went out ...

(Set the scene!)

Mark 14:16–20 CSB

16 So the disciples went out, entered the city, and found it just as he had told them, and they prepared the Passover. 17 When evening came, he arrived with the Twelve. 18 While they were reclining and eating, Jesus said, “Truly I tell you, one of you will betray me—one who is eating with me.” 19 They began to be distressed and to say to him one by one, “Surely not I?” 20 He said to them, “It is one of the Twelve—the one who is dipping bread in the bowl with me.

(Describe the painting by Leonardo Da Vinci)

“… these things,”

What things?

These things:

He is praying -

for Himself:

John 17:1–2 CSB

1 Jesus spoke these things, looked up to heaven, and said, “Father, the hour has come. Glorify your Son so that the Son may glorify you, 2 since you gave him authority over all people, so that he may give eternal life to everyone you have given him.

for His disciples:

John 17:9–12 CSB

9 “I pray for them. I am not praying for the world but for those you have given me, because they are yours. 10 Everything I have is yours, and everything you have is mine, and I am glorified in them. 11 I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them by your name that you have given me, so that they may be one as we are one. 12 While I was with them, I was protecting them by your name that you have given me. I guarded them and not one of them is lost, except the son of destruction, so that the Scripture may be fulfilled.

These things ...

These things

must be going through the disciples’ mind

And now Jesus has been arrested

and they now know, what Jesus knew

when they set off on their journey

to Jerusalem!

And then there is that cursed rooster!

(Or is it the blessed rooster)

The rooster that confirmed

what Peter also knew

Who am I, he might be asking himself

He might have caught Jesus eye

He may have mistaken Jesus gaze

as one of disappointment in him

even, accusation: “Et tu, Peter”

But Jesus, gaze is one of love!