Have you ever wondered what it would have been like to know Christ Jesus, and maybe even to walk with him from village to village throughout Judea? After witnessing such wonderful healing works and listening to the Master teach, surely you'd be filled with the kind of spiritual inspiration and knowledge that would make you a new person. What you learned could never be taken away.
The disciple Peter had just such an experience. He was with Jesus, for example, when Jesus was transfigured. The Bible says of the Master, "As he prayed, the fashion of his countenance was altered, and his raiment was white and glistering." Soon after, Peter heard a very distraught man ask for Jesus' help. Then he saw firsthand a boy healed of epilepsy. See Luke 9:28-42
Later, when some officers came to arrest Jesus and take him away to be crucified, Peter drew a sword and cut off the ear of the high priest's servant. See John 18:10 Peter may have been trying to decapitate the soldier but only wounded him. In no uncertain terms, Jesus told him to put the sword back in the sheath, and, as Luke's Gospel tells, "He touched his ear, and healed him." Luke 22:51 Think of how Peter must have felt as his Master was led away. In front of the man he loved so much, he had just severely injured someone. Jesus had chastised him, healed the victim, and was taken out of his sight.
