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<blockquote>'''The First Prediction of the Passion.''' | |||
I love this line from Scripture -- and it's rather useful at times, | |||
From that time on, Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer greatly from the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed and on the third day be raised. | |||
Then Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him, “God forbid, Lord! No such thing shall ever happen to you.” | |||
He turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are an obstacle to me. You are thinking not as God does, but as human beings do.” </blockquote>I love this line from Scripture -- and it's rather useful at times, a magnificent rebuke, "Get behind me, Satan!" | |||
We don't know how Peter reacted to it, as it was in no way said in jest. Think about it: the Lord called him "Satan" (and as a proper noun)! | |||
What's going on here? | |||
== God's plan, not Peter's == | |||
Nearing the time of the Passover festival, Jesus had prepared the disciples for his coming Passion ([https://bible.usccb.org/bible/matthew/16?21 Mt 16:21]): <blockquote>From that time on, Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer greatly from the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed and on the third day be raised. </blockquote>to which Peter objects: <blockquote>Then Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him, “God forbid, Lord! No such thing shall ever happen to you.” </blockquote> | Nearing the time of the Passover festival, Jesus had prepared the disciples for his coming Passion ([https://bible.usccb.org/bible/matthew/16?21 Mt 16:21]): <blockquote>From that time on, Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer greatly from the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed and on the third day be raised. </blockquote>to which Peter objects: <blockquote>Then Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him, “God forbid, Lord! No such thing shall ever happen to you.” </blockquote> | ||