Jesus Predicts His Death
21From that time on Jesus began to explain to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life.
22Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. “Never, Lord!” he said. “This shall never happen to you!”
23Jesus turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me; you do not have in mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns.”
Jesus knew what his assignment was, and He already was close to the mindset of asking God to take it away from Him, if it was possible (in the garden, a bit later). The last thing He needed was one of the men who was part of his inner circle telling him not to let it happen; that he would stop it from happening.
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