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SearchVigilance for Truth is Essential
Until the crowing of the cock brought Peter to his better senses, he had only thought, as he
walked up and down the porch to keep warm, how cleverly he had eluded the accusations of the
servants, and how he had frustrated their purpose to identify him with Jesus. For the time being,
he had only considered that these servants had no moral or legal right thus to question him, and
he really congratulated himself over the manner in which he thought he had avoided being
identified and possibly subjected to arrest and imprisonment. Not until the cock crowed did it
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occur to Peter that he had denied his Master. Not until Jesus looked upon him, did he realize that
he had failed to live up to his privileges as an ambassador of the kingdom.