out later that this won’t be the only time Peter defies Jesus’s prophecy, promising what he can’t deliver (26:33–35). To be sure, Peter will play a significant part in Jesus’s kingdom. But he and the rest of the disciples will need to learn what that means. To follow Jesus to Jerusalem, they will have to deny themselves, even to the point of death, because that’s what he’s going to do. They need to have God’s thoughts on the matter; to think any other way about Jesus’s mission is to have “merely