Christ appears to Saint Peter

Saint Luke - Chapter 24

Christ appears to Saint Peter. J-J Tissot

[34] dicentes : Quod surrexit Dominus vere, et apparuit Simoni.
Saying: The Lord is risen indeed, and hath appeared to Simon.

[12] Petrus autem surgens cucurrit ad monumentum : et procumbens vidit linteamina sola posita, et abiit secum mirans quod factum fuerat.
But Peter rising up, ran to the sepulchre, and stooping down, he saw the linen cloths laid by themselves; and went away wondering in himself at that which was come to pass.

Saint John - Chapter 20

[6] Venit ergo Simon Petrus sequens eum, et introivit in monumentum, et vidit linteamina posita,
Then cometh Simon Peter, following him, and went into the sepulchre, and saw the linen cloths lying,

[7] et sudarium, quod fuerat super caput ejus, non cum linteaminibus positum, sed separatim involutum in unum locum.
And the napkin that had been about his head, not lying with the linen cloths, but apart, wrapped up into one place.

From The Life of Our Lord Jesus Christ, by J-J Tissot (1897)

When Saint Peter and Saint John had seen for themselves that the body of Jesus was no longer in the tomb, they must have separated, each going his own way, for there is nothing about Saint John in the account of the Lord having appeared to Saint Peter, given by Saint Luke, where he says: "He was seen by Cephas, then by the twelve." In our engravings, Peter is represented on his way back to the Guest-Chamber, when suddenly Jesus appears to him, His body radiating light.  He shows His now glorious wounds to His wondering disciple, reminds him by a gesture of his triple denial, which He will later made him retract by a triple protestation of love.  From this moment, however, it is very evident that Peter is forgiven, and his confusion is that of surprised affection rather than of fear.  He has wept so much, since the time of his fall!

The character of Peter, as it comes out in the Gospels, presents curious contrasts.  He is at once generous, eager, devoted, easily alarmed and timid.  He wants to call down fire from Heaven on the towns which reject his Master, yet he himself denies Him three times.  He draws his sword in the Garden and dashes blindly into the midst of the soldiers, cutting of the ear of one of them, but directly afterwards he runs away with the other disciples.  At the house of Caiaphas, whither he hastens, not without courage, after John, he cannot face the questions of a mere servant, but a look from Jesus is enough to recall him to himself, and later he will know how to die.  When Jesus was about to wash his feet in the Guest-Chamber, he protested: " Thou shalt never wash my feet", but when the Lord replied: "If I wash them not thou hast no part with me", he rushed at once from one extreme to the other, crying: "Not my feet only but also my hands and my head." Such was Saint Peter, with his sympathetic and deeply interesting temperament, but he had great need of the Holy Spirit to become a pillar of the Church and the rock on which the it Church was to be built.

Totus tuus ego sum 

Et omnia mea tua sunt;

Tecum semper tutus sum:
Ad Jesum per Mariam