Perspective: The “gangsters” came to get Jesus in the garden and Peter got gangster too. He whipped out his weapon and whet it on one of them.

Jesus made a powerful literal and figurative statement out of a gangster situation when he healed the wounded gangster. He wasn’t about to allow this to derail His mission.

“Then said Jesus unto Peter, Put up thy sword into the sheath: the cup which my Father hath given me, shall I not drink it?” John 18:11 KJV