(January 3, 2022 at 8:01 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(January 3, 2022 at 7:25 pm)Ferrocyanide Wrote: He calls Peter “Satan” because Peter told him not to get himself killed. It looks like Peter was being protective. It looks like Peter was saying don’t worry about it, that won’t happen.
Then, Jesus behaves like a jerk and says to Peter:
Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.
^^^^^Also, Jesus is saying that men are crap or something.
The NEW WORLD TRANSLATION says:
Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me, because you think, not God’s thoughts, but those of men.
^^^^^So, thinking about protecting yourself, self preservation is “men’s thought.
The funny thing is 1 line before that, Jesus is ready to give the keys to heaven to Peter because Peter said to him something he liked:
But it sounds like Jesus calmed down after that and didn’t kick Peter out of the group.
Yeah, Jesus did have a short fuse - cursing the poor, innocent fig tree, going off on his old mum, etc. Peter got off lightly.
Boru
He went off on his mum?
Well, that does have biblical precedant....
Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:
"You did WHAT? With WHO? WHERE???"
