John 13:36

Simon Peter said to him, "Lord, where are you going?" Jesus answered, "Where I am going, you cannot follow me now; but you will follow afterward"

From Background Notes [BN] for April 6^th & 7^th written by Pastor Bob Brown:

Rising from the dead, Jesus offered the future to his followers and to anybody else who would choose his agenda over their own. However, the future included dealing with what the disciples had done when the chips were down and they had messed up the mission — or so they thought.

Judas ended his career with Jesus in an especially bad place, and his untimely suicide denies us access to his heart as he breathed his last. We must not be too quick to judge him and relieve ourselves or the others. After all, Judas betrayed him, while Peter denied him, and the others abandoned him. Yet, Luke says Judas went to “his own place” (Acts 1:25), a murky description of his afterward, that seems to hold little promise of any definite future we care to talk about or visit. Worse, Judas “turned aside from his apostleship,” the text says, leaving a vacancy to be filled. Peter, as we shall see in our first study this week, faced a similarly dismal meeting — or so he thought — with Jesus. But Peter didn’t make a fatal choice that foreshortened his life, making a hopeful decision impossible. [BN, 1]


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