<p>26:52&nbsp;<i>Then said Jesus to him: Put away your sword into its place</i>- When Peter speaks of how the Lord Jesus will &lsquo;turn away&rsquo; sinners from their sins (Acts 3:26), he is using the very word of how the Lord Jesus told him to &ldquo;put up again&rdquo; his sword (Mt. 26:52), thereby turning Peter away from his sin. Whether Peter's allusion was conscious or unconscious isn't clear; we tend to use language which has recently been used to us even in other contexts, especially if we have meditated upon it and feel it personally relevant to us. Again we see that Peter's appeal to Israel to repent in Acts 2 and 3 was so successful because it was shot through with reference to his own failures and experience of repentance, conversion and forgiveness. Peter&rsquo;s appeal for repentance and conversion was evidently allusive to his own experience of conversion (Lk. 22:32 cp. Acts 3:19; 9:35). In this he was following the pattern of David, who sung his &lsquo;Maschil&rsquo; (teaching) psalms after his forgiveness in order to convert sinners unto Yahweh (Ps. 51:13). Like Peter, David did so with his sin ever before him, with a broken and contrite heart (Ps. 51:3,17). He invited them to seek forgiveness for their denial of their Lord, just as he had done. He dearly wished them to follow his pattern, and know the grace he now did. The same word used of how Judas &quot;brought again&quot; his pieces of silver to the Jews (27:3). This is part of a series of similarities between Judas and Peter at this time. They both in essence did the same thing, but Peter repented and trusted in the Lord's grace, whereas Judas didn't know the Lord's grace.</p><p><i>For all that take the sword</i>- Peter was the one who had literally just put forth his hand and taken a sword (:51). So it was by grace that he didn't &quot;perish&quot; by the sword at this time. Again, we see how grace ran through the Lord's actions at this His greatest moment of personal stress. The same word&nbsp;<i>lambano</i>, &quot;take&quot;, is used of how Judas had 'received' a band of men armed with swords in order to capture Jesus (Jn. 18:3). Again, the similarities are being developed between Peter and Judas; both in essence made the same mistakes and committed the same sins, in this case, taking the sword. But Peter repented and trusted in the Lord's grace.&nbsp;</p><p><i>Shall perish with the sword</i>- Not particularly in this life, but at judgment day, because &quot;perish&quot; is repeatedly used about final condemnation (e.g. 5:29,30; 10:28,39; 16:25; 22:7). The word is specifically used of the 'perishing' of Judas (Jn. 17:12, AV &quot;lost&quot;; 18:9). Again, the warning to Peter was not to be like Judas, even though the similarities between them were great at this time.&nbsp;</p><p>Jn. 18:11 adds: &quot;The cup which My Father has given Me, shall I not drink it?&quot;. If Peter had entered into the Lord's struggle in Gethsemane concerning the cup, then he wouldn't have made this mistake of attempting violent resistance. But he fell asleep, and as with us so often, failure or laziness at one point leads to failure in others later on.</p>