Mark 8:31-33

Sometimes life comes with suffering. I prayed in the dark hours of the morning for all sickness and suffering to be kept from me, my family and the world but we don’t always know God’s plan for us or man. It is best to pray for His will to be done in our life and the lives of man for without the suffering of Christ we would be without hope!


This is the first of several clear predictions Jesus makes about His coming death and resurrection. He began to teach this new disclosure of His death, burial, and resurrection to His apostles. The elders and chief priests, former high priests, and scribes made up the Jewish ruling council, the Sanhedrin. These men would condemn Jesus to death for the fulfillment of Jesus’ prediction. Peter understood clearly Jesus’ prediction of death and could not accept or understand it, and so he began to rebuke Him. Peter’s thoughts, born of fear and concern, were probably well-intended, but they did not take in God’s eternal purposes and plan. If Peter had his way, Jesus’ mission would not have been accomplished.


Mark 8:31-33

31 And He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again. 32 He spoke this word openly. Then Peter took Him aside and began to rebuke Him. 33 But when He had turned around and looked at His disciples, He rebuked Peter, saying, “Get behind Me, Satan! For you are not mindful of the things of God, but the things of men.”