From the archives.

For Christians, these next few days are the darkest.
Thank God that Easter comes and Christ shows his power
by raising again.
How could any man, let along Jesus' closest followers, betray Him
at His greatest time of need?

Luke 22: 53-61

Day after day I was with you in the temple area, and you did not seize me; but this is your hour, the time for the power of darkness."
After arresting him they led him away and took him into the house of the high priest; Peter was following at a distance.
They lit a fire in the middle of the courtyard and sat around it, and Peter sat down with them.
When a maid saw him seated in the light, she looked intently at him and said, "This man too was with him."
But he denied it saying, "Woman, I do not know him."
A short while later someone else saw him and said, "You too are one of them"; but Peter answered, "My friend, I am not."
About an hour later, still another insisted, "Assuredly, this man too was with him, for he also is a Galilean."
But Peter said, "My friend, I do not know what you are talking about." Just as he was saying this, the cock crowed,
and the Lord turned and looked at Peter;
and Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said to him,
"Before the cock crows today, you will deny me three times."