Colton Is Not in the Bible: Its English Meaning Explained

There are two charcoal fires in John’s Gospel, and the same rare word is used for both. Peter stands at the first one, warming his hands in a courtyard, saying three times that he does not know the man. The second is on a beach at dawn, lit by the man himself, with fish on it and breakfast ready. Colton has nothing to do with coal. But almost everyone thinks it does, and the mistake leads somewhere better than the…