Simon Peter was the disciple with a foot-shaped mouth. "I will never leave you no matter what the others do," Peter protested one day after the Lord told the disciples that they would all desert him. Not much later, Peter denies the Lord three times in the courtyard, swearing the third time that he never knew the man.

After his resurrection Jesus appears to some of his disciples. They have some breakfast together, then Jesus turns to Peter and says, "Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these others?" Peter replies, "Yes, Lord; yo…