August 30, 2011 – Luke 4:31 - 5:16

It is interesting. I always pictured that when Jesus called Peter after the fishing incident, that was the first time they had met. But the thing at Peter’s house with his mother-in-law happened before Jesus called Peter to follow Him. So, they knew each other, or at least had met, because Jesus was in his home. That means that Peter saw Christ cured his mother-in-law before he sees Christ on the shore. Then he is asked to get in his boat to preach to the people. Peter could not have thought anything was going to happen after the preaching. Even after the fish miracle, Peter might have been thinking Jesus would leave because he was not asked to follow Him after being is his home. Not until Christ tells him he will be fishers of men does he follow Him. It is not the miracles that Peter follows for. He actually ask Christ to leave because of his unworthiness after the miracles. It is after Christ calls him that he follows. It is the opposite of what we hear sometimes about people wanting to see miracles before they will be convinced or follow Christ. Peter is different.