For Fox News, Randal Teague, author of Jesus and His Fishermen: The Untold Story, writes: Palm Sunday just passed and Easter is upon us. We know the scriptural accounts. We’ve heard them many times. But this year, we might look for something more — the rest of the story.
When Jesus first called Peter, Peter didn’t want the job.
He was a working fisherman. He ran his own boat, managed a crew, negotiated prices at the docks. He was comfortable in his own sun-hardened skin. When Jesus approached him, Peter’s first response wasn’t confidence. It was humility: “Lord, depart from me, for I am a sinful man.”
He likely understood what Jesus was asking—not just to follow, but to help carry a mission whose full cost wasn’t yet visible. Peter said yes. And then he stumbled.