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== Friday, Nov 15: "Get behind me, Satan!" == | == Friday, Nov 15: "Get behind me, Satan!" == | ||
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From [https://bible.usccb.org/bible/matthew/16?23 Mt 16:23] (also in [https://bible.usccb.org/bible/mark/8:33 Mk 8:33]): <blockquote>''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.”'' (Mt. 16:23)</blockquote> | As at the arrest of Jesus in the Garden, Peter brashly tries to defend Jesus’ person. He just didn’t get it, didn't get the logic of God’s plan. (Perhaps had he not slept through Jesus’ prayer in the Garden, he would have better understood...) Earlier, Jesus told the disciples of his coming death and resurrection: <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.” ([https://bible.usccb.org/bible/matthew/16?21 Mt 16:21])</blockquote> | ||
From [https://bible.usccb.org/bible/matthew/16?23 Mt 16:23] (also in [https://bible.usccb.org/bible/mark/8:33 Mk 8:33]): <blockquote>''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.”'' (Mt. 16:23)</blockquote> | |||
We’re worse than Peter though— God's plan has been fully revealed to us and we are still stuck “''thinking… as human beings do.''” | |||
Jesus here rebukes Peter for objecting to what Jesus told him about his coming death and resurrection: <blockquote></blockquote>Peter kinda missed that "and... on the third day be raised," business. Naturally, he was shocked that Jesus told the disciples that he was be betrayed and killed. The rebuke, then, is plainly that Paul was thinking this life not the next, thinking like a human and not like God. | |||
The passage follows Simon's appointment as head of the Church, the rock, "Peter," which itself follow's Peter's declaration that Jesus is "the Messiah, the son of the living God." | The passage follows Simon's appointment as head of the Church, the rock, "Peter," which itself follow's Peter's declaration that Jesus is "the Messiah, the son of the living God." | ||
John, as usual, gives us some different passages, including the seven "I am" statements of Jesus, with the most direct one regarding knowing Abraham:<blockquote>So the Jews said to him, “You are not yet fifty years old and you have seen Abraham?” Jesus said to them, “Amen, amen, I say to you, before Abraham came to be, I AM.” ([https://bible.usccb.org/bible/john/8:57 Jn 8:57-8:x]) </blockquote>Jesus' listeners take great offence at this and try to stone him. But the Messiah will be "lifted up" not knocked down, so Jesus miraculously escapes. | John, as usual, gives us some different passages, including the seven "I am" statements of Jesus, with the most direct one regarding knowing Abraham:<blockquote>So the Jews said to him, “You are not yet fifty years old and you have seen Abraham?” Jesus said to them, “Amen, amen, I say to you, before Abraham came to be, I AM.” ([https://bible.usccb.org/bible/john/8:57 Jn 8:57-8:x]) </blockquote>Jesus' listeners take great offence at this and try to stone him. But the Messiah will be "lifted up" not knocked down, so Jesus miraculously escapes. | ||