“Be alert and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is strong, but the flesh is weak.”

“Be alert and pray so that you will not fall into temptation.

The spirit is strong, but the flesh is weak.”

 

 

The Jews who shouted that Jesus should be sentenced to death spat on His face,

struck Him with their fists, and slapped Him, mocking,

"Christ, who hit You? Guess who it was."

However, when Peter, a disciple of Jesus, was sitting in the courtyard,

a servant girl came up and said,

"You are also one of those who are with Jesus from Galilee, aren't you?"

Peter replied, "I don't know what you're talking about,"

and denied Jesus in front of everyone.

Then, when Peter went out to the gateway,

another servant girl saw him and said to the people there,

"This man was with Jesus of Nazareth." Peter denied it,

even swearing, saying, "I don't know the man!"

A little later, those who were standing there came up to Peter and said,

"Surely you are one of them, for your accent betrays you."

Then Peter began to call down curses on himself and swore to them,

"I do not know the man!"

At that moment, the rooster crowed,

and Peter remembered the words Jesus had spoken,

"Before the rooster crows, you will deny Me three times."

He went outside and wept bitterly

(Matthew 26:66-75, Koran Modern Bible).

When Jesus was deeply distressed in the Garden of Gethsemane,

to the point of feeling as though He might die, He told Peter, John, and James,

"Stay here and keep watch with Me." But they all fell asleep.

At that moment, Jesus said to Peter,

"Couldn't you keep watch with Me for one hour?"

(vv. 38-40, Korean Modern Bible).

Now, as the Jews spat on Jesus' face, struck Him with their fists,

and slapped Him while mocking Him, Peter denied Jesus three times.

These words of Jesus come to mind again:

"Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation.

The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak"

(v. 41, Korean Modern Bible).