RCL reading for Sunday, March 8, 2009:
Excerpt from The New Revised Standard Version
via Oremus (http://bible.oremus.org)
Mark 8:31-38
31 Then he began to teach them that the Son of Man must undergo great suffering, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.
32 He said all this quite openly. And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him.
33 But turning and looking at his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said, ‘Get behind me, Satan! For you are setting your mind not on divine things but on human things.’
34 He called the crowd with his disciples, and said to them, ‘If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.
35 For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake, and for the sake of the gospel, will save it.
36 For what will it profit them to gain the whole world and forfeit their life?
37 Indeed, what can they give in return for their life?
38 Those who are ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of them the Son of Man will also be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.’
QUESTIONS
What was the Sanhedrin? How does it figure into verse 31?
In verse 33, is Jesus calling Peter "Satan"?
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Today we still accept and trust the world of sensible things. The Ruler of This World is presumed to be just because he is powerful. Peter is outraged that once we finally have a messiah he must be brutalized and killed. That makes no sense to the Ruler of This World who is Satan. Peter is of course not Satan but he is exposed as holding that line of reasoning.
ReplyDeletemaimon
If we take up the cross and follow Him then we may hope for eternity with Him. If you don't bear the cross then you can't wear a crown. As Nietsche would say, in the eternal recurrance you have to do the whole thing, over and over.
ReplyDeletemaimon