Luk 22:31-32 | Family | STEP | Sift you ; all the apostles. As wheat ; greatly agitate your minds with inward and outward trials, to induce you, if possible, to deny men, apostatize, and perish.

Luke 22:31-32

Sift you; all the apostles.

As wheat; greatly agitate your minds with inward and outward trials, to induce you, if possible, to deny men, apostatize, and perish. For thee; while he intercedes for all the apostles, he offers a special prayer for Peter.

Fail not; not utterly fail, but when weakened revive again and become triumphant.

Converted; turned from thy sin. Jesus Christ is acquainted with all the dangers of his people, and guards them, that when they fall, they may rise again, and be for ever victorious over all their foes.