And a second time a cock sounded. And Peter remembered the word Jesus said to him, Before a cock sounds twice, you will deny Me three times. And thinking on it, he wept.
And the ones on the rock are those who, when they hear, receive the Word with joy; and these have no root, who believe for a time, and in time of trial draw back.
Who is the one condemning? Christ is the One having died, but rather also having been raised, who also is at the right hand of God, who also intercedes on our behalf.
watching diligently that not any lack from the grace of God, that “no root of bitterness growing up” may crowd “in on you,” and through this many be defiled; Deut. 29:18
They went out from us, but they were not of us. For if they were of us, they would have remained with us; but they left so that it might be revealed that they all are not of us.