There were certain reasons why Peter and John walked on earth with Christ-God manifest in flesh: they had the blessed privilege of it, but every vessel is made for its particular purpose, and.
He who made them could use one where He could not use another; the living water filling each in readiness to be used, because He had made that vessel for that particular purpose. In Peter, John, and Paul, you get vessels through whom God gave-the truth.
It is sweet to have communion with saints in the truth; but after all the heart has to live with God.
The great thing is, beginning and ending with Christ-the same Christ that first quickens the soul, renews it unto the end.