<p>22:54 <i>And they seized him and led him away, and brought him into the high priest's house. And Peter followed from a distance</i>- There is great emphasis on the Lord being&nbsp;<i>led</i>&nbsp;(Mt. 26:57; 27:2,31; Mk. 15:16; Jn. 18:13,28; 19:16). And notice how Acts 8:32 changes the quotation from Is. 53 to say that Christ was&nbsp;<i>led</i> (this isn't in the Hebrew text). His passivity is another indication that He was&nbsp;<i>giving</i>&nbsp;His life of His own volition, it wasn't being taken from Him. As noted on Mk. 14:51, it seems that Peter was the young man who followed dressed in a linen cloth.</p><p>This is recorded in the same words by all three Synoptics. It impressed them all as perhaps typical of so much of their &lsquo;following&rsquo; the Lord; it was a following, but far off from Him. His challenge to Peter had been to not just physically follow Him, but to pick up His cross and walk behind Him on His way to His cross (Mt. 16:24 s.w.). Following Jesus in the shadows and avoiding identification with Him was hardly the kind of following which He intended. Yet Peter recognized this, because his appeal for repentance describes his audience as likewise &ldquo;afar off&rdquo; (Acts 2:39 s.w.); he is asking them to make the conversion which he did, and he thereby considers his &lsquo;following afar off&rsquo; as not really following at all, and being in a &lsquo;far off from Christ&rsquo; position from which he repented and thereby &lsquo;came near&rsquo; to Christ in conversion. The Greek words for &lsquo;followed&rsquo; and &lsquo;afar off&rsquo; are also used about how the few remaining disciples stood &lsquo;afar off&rsquo; from Christ on the cross. The sense is perhaps that the Gospel writers recognized how far they were from co-crucifixion with Christ, and this sense is one we can identify with. And we are those likewise described in Ephesians as &ldquo;far off&rdquo; as Peter was, but are now likewise reconciled.</p>