Peter’s Confession about
Jesus, The First Prediction of the Passion, and The Conditions of Discipleship
MK 8:27-35
Jesus and his disciples set out
for the villages of Caesarea Philippi.
Along the way he asked his disciples,
“Who do people say that I am?”
They said in reply,
“John the Baptist, others Elijah,
still others one of the prophets.”
And he asked them,
“But who do you say that I am?”
Peter said to him in reply,
“You are the Christ.”
Then he warned them not to tell anyone about
him.
He began to teach them
that the Son of Man must suffer greatly
and be rejected by the elders, the chief
priests, and the scribes,
and be killed, and rise after three days.
He spoke this openly.
Then Peter took him aside and began to rebuke
him.
At this he turned around and, looking at his
disciples,
rebuked Peter and said, “Get behind me, Satan.
You are thinking not as God does, but as human
beings do.”
He summoned the crowd with his disciples and
said to them,
“Whoever wishes to come after me must deny
himself,
take up his cross, and follow me.
For whoever wishes to save his life will lose
it,
but whoever loses his life for my sake
and that of the gospel will save it.”
