Chapter # 8 Paragraph # 6 Study # 2
October 18, 2022
Moss Bluff, Louisiana
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1901 ASV
32 And he spake the saying openly. And Peter took him, and began to rebuke him.
33 But he turning about, and seeing his disciples, rebuked Peter, and saith, Get thee behind me, Satan; for thou mindest not the things of God, but the things of men.
- I. And With Openness The Word He Was Speaking... .
- A. Mark only uses the word translated "openness" this one time, but it is used in 31 other texts of the New Testament with the idea of "not hiding anything".
- B. Jesus is presented as "in the process of speaking in the past time" (laleo in the Imperfect, Indicative).
- 1. The implication is that Jesus said more than the few words recorded in 8:31.
- a. The "was speaking" indicates more than a few words.
- b. "The Word" (ton logon) also indicates more than a brief saying.
- c. Jesus "began to teach them" also indicates that there is more to the issue than one sentence: Mark has "summarized" the teaching in the few words he recorded.
- 1) The first "issue" is Jesus' "teaching" regarding "necessity".
- a) This is the issue of certain things that cannot be avoided.
- b) This word is first used by Mark in this text (there are a further four to come: 9:11; 13:7; 13:10; and 13:14).
- c) The "unavoidable" is the immediately coming developments regarding The Son Of The Man and His "suffering".
- i. He is to be subject to "many painful things".
- ii. He is to be rejected by the "elders" (responsible for the petty traditions; 7:3,5) and the "chief priests" (they come into the picture at this point and are to be understood as the overseers of "worship") and the "scribes" (already presented as the "official scholars of the nation"; 3:22).
- iii. He is to be killed.
- d) The ultimate "unavoidable": the resurrection after three days.
- 2. "The Word" has multiple aspects.
- a. First is the "identity" issue of moving away from "Christ" to "The Son of The Man".
- b. Then there is the progression from "to suffer" to "third day resurrection".
- c. Also included is the grouping of the adversaries into the categories of "The Leadership of The Nation".
- II. And Having Taken Him Aside, The Peter Him He Began To Rebuke... .
- A. The "began" is the exact form of the same word as is in 8:31.
- B. The "to rebuke" is also the same word as in 8:30.
- C. The difference between Jesus' "insistence" and "began to teach" is that He was hiding nothing and speaking to all of the disciples, while "The Peter" was deliberately "private" and just as insistent.
- IV. But Jesus Returned The "Favor".
- A. Jesus was turned (Aorist Passive) so that He saw His disciples.
- B. He, then, "rebuked" (same word as in 8:30 and 32) Peter.
- C. The indication is that there was some "heat" in the discussion.
- V. And He Is Saying (legei; Present, Indicative) Get Behind Me, Satan, Because... .
- A. This is "brutal": Peter is totally out of order. He is the "disciple" and he is arrogantly trying to be "greater than the Master" (John 13:16 and 15:20).
- 1. He was the one who identified Jesus as "The Christ", but he had no knowledge of what that "identity" really meant in this particular period of history.
- 2. He was completely wrapped up in "the things of the men" as clashing (alla) with "the things of The God".
- B. At issue is the "brutal fact" that the disciple who was to be elevated to a high position of influence in the Church after the resurrection was absolutely opposed to a most fundamental attribute of The God: servanthood unto death if necessary.