and death. When privileged to witness a foretaste of Jesus’s eternal glory, Peter tried to capture and contain it in booths made by human hands. And after pledging his undying fealty to Jesus and following him into the high priest’s courtyard, he denied even knowing him. According to C. Richard Wells, these failures were not a hindrance to his development into the leading apostolic spokesman, but just the opposite. They were what necessitated his own repentance and restoration, which was required