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Jesus is led deeper into the high priest’s courts—alone, bound, and already tasting the abandonment that will culminate at the cross—while Peter, trying to stay close, ends up distancing himself with three painful denials. Psalm 17 gives voice to what Jesus is living in real time: an innocent sufferer entrusting Himself to the Father—“hear the right, O Lord… show Your steadfast love”—when human strength and human loyalty collapse. And if we see ourselves in Peter (warming our hands by the world’s fire, choosing self-preservation over confession), this is the mercy that holds: Jesus is abandoned and denied so that failures like us are not finally forsaken, but called back, forgiven, and made faithful again.

Pr. Denton Bennet

Jesus Is Abandoned (Contemporary)

Steps to the Cross
John 18:12-27
March 8, 2026
Jesus is led deeper into the high priest’s courts—alone, bound, and already tasting the abandonment that will culminate at the cross—while Peter, trying to stay close, ends up distancing himself with three painful denials. Psalm 17 gives voice to what Jesus is living in real time: an innocent sufferer entrusting Himself to the Father—“hear the right, O Lord… show Your steadfast love”—when human strength and human loyalty collapse. And if we see ourselves in Peter (warming our hands by the world’s fire, choosing self-preservation over confession), this is the mercy that holds: Jesus is abandoned and denied so that failures like us are not finally forsaken, but called back, forgiven, and made faithful again.
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