"Peter," 'Abdu'l-Bahá has testified,
"according to the history of the Church, was also incapable of keeping
count of the days of the week. Whenever he decided to go fishing, he would tie
up his weekly food into seven parcels, and every day he would eat one of them,
and when he had reached the seventh, he would know that the Sabbath had
arrived, and thereupon would observe it." If the Son of Man was capable of
infusing into apparently so crude and helpless an instrument such potency as to
cause, in the words of Bahá'u'lláh, "the mysteries of wisdom and of
utterance to flow out of his mouth," and to exalt him above the rest of
His disciples, and render him fit to become His successor and the founder of
His Church, how much more can the Father, Who is Bahá'u'lláh, empower the most
puny and insignificant among His followers to achieve, for the execution of His
purpose, such wonders as would dwarf the mightiest achievements of even the
first apostle of Jesus Christ!
- Shoghi Effendi
('The Advent of Divine Justice')
