Thursday, September 8, 2011

Caution

Peter did not think it necessary to caution Jesus until it came to the issue of dying and rising. He seemed able to permit rejection by the priests and leaders. The prospect of adversity maybe supported his need to be special, but that dying and then the rising. That made no sense. It was not done and Peter needed his life and belief to make sense. Maybe it is the making sense, the trying to introduce reasonableness into what was only open to belief, that prompted Jesus' rebuke. Perhaps that was the Satan to be put behind him.

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