"Jesus earlier preached the parable of the Good Shepherd and the lost sheep; well, He is the Good Shepherd, and in this instance, Peter is the lost sheep. And Jesus goes totally out of His way, condescends, stoops down (like He did when He, the King of kings, was born in the manger…like He did when He suffered and died the humiliating execution of a common criminal)…. He stoops down to where Peter is, when Peter is not yet able (or perhaps even not yet willing) to be raised up to where Jesus wants him to be."