Do it and see. Let s come back to the central point. Jesus appears to have had one central mission on his mind in making this appearance to the disciples. 3 times he forgives Peter, matching the 3 times that Peter denied him. Somewhere between number 2 and number 3, it must have dawned on Peter what was happening to him.
Light goes on.
Think about that for just a moment in all of its humanity. How often this happens. A loved one dies, let s say that it is a parent or a child. Think about the parents of the boys that killed so many of their classmates at Colombine High School in Littleton, Colorado, a couple years ago, before turning the gun on themselves. We can fairly well presume that there must have been a good deal of distance and alienation between the parents and the boys in the weeks and months preceding this horrible end.