Jesus answered, 'Will you lay down your life for me? Very truly, I tell you, before the rooster crows, you will have denied me three times' — Jesus responds not with rebuke but with a question that exposes Peter's misunderstanding: can Peter lay down his life for Jesus when he cannot even confess Jesus before hostile servants? The prediction of triple denial is not mere prophecy but an invitation to humility, to the recognition that following Jesus requires not heroic acts but faithful presence, not boastful courage but persistent trust. Peter will deny, yes—and this denial will become the doorway to his restoration, the wound that teaches him that his own strength cannot sustain faith, that he must receive grace again and again.

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