Blessing or Rebuke
In Matthew 16, right after Peter confesses that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of the living God, Jesus says to him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.” (Matthew 16:17) Yet in the very next section as Jesus tells His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things, be killed, and raised on the third day, we see a completely different interaction between Peter and Jesus:
“And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him, saying, “Far be it from you, Lord! This shall never happen to you.” But he…
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