The Peep of Day

by Favell Lee Mortimer

Do you hear what he says? they cried out. He calls himself the Son of God! He must be taken to the judge to be killed.

Jesus stood meekly all this while, and hardly spoke a word.

What was become of his disciples? They had run away.

Had Peter run away? Peter said he would die with Jesus. But he ran away too.

At last Peter thought, I will go and look for Jesus; I should like to see what the wicked men are doing to him.

So Peter came to Jerusalem, and into the fine house. He came into the hall first: the wicked servants were sitting round a fire in the hall; a door was open, and through the door Peter could see Jesus. There he was, standing before the wicked men. Peter hoped that nobody would know that he was one of Jesus’ disciples, lest he should be killed. But as Peter was sitting by the fire, warming himself, a maid said to him, You are one of the disciples of Jesus.

Then Peter was frightened, and said, No, I am not; I do not know the man you speak of.

Then Peter got up, and went outside the door; but another maid said to him, I am sure you are one of the disciples of Jesus.

Peter said, I am not. So Peter went back again to the fire, and began talking with the servants.