Mark 8:29-32 NLT

Then he asked them, "But who do you say I am?"

Peter replied, 

"You are the Messiah."

But Jesus warned them not to tell anyone about him.

Then Jesus began to tell them that the Son of Man must suffer many terrible things and be rejected by the elders, the leading priests, and the teachers of religious law. He would be killed, but three days later he would rise from the dead. 

As he talked about this openly with his disciples, Peter took him aside and began to reprimand him for saying such things.

Mark 8:29-32 NLT

Peter got it. 

Got who Jesus is.

But didn't get it all.

Because Jesus for what seems the first time is unpacking more of his mission, or perhaps it's the "how" his messiahship will actually work, not the way Peter wanted or expected.

Peter is the voice (& often the doer) of the things others want to say or do. He just says out loud what the others may well be thinking - "you're the Messiah, saving us doesn't happen that way.

I can't see how that works, so you must be wrong.

Don't talk like that"

Easter is just around the corner, a time when we're particularly confronted by the upsidedownness of the kingdom. Peter just experienced it, and it can jar, jolt, & part of us can think it's wrong, God has got it wrong...

We're invited in to the upsidedown kingdom, where Love made rejection, suffering and death, into Life...

#gospelofMark #GoodNews 

#easter