Editing Blog:"Get behind me, Satan!" (section)

== God's plan, not Peter's ==

Nearing the time of the Passover festival, Jesus had prepared the disciples for his coming Passion. My NAB Bible gives this passage the title, "The First Prediction of the Passion." And it wasn't just a hint: Jesus told them flat out, that he will<blockquote>

suffer greatly from the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed and on the third day be raised.</blockquote>Who wouldn't react like Peter: ''No, Lord, no!''  

We do know that whatever he made of it, Peter didn't understand the purpose.    

Later, and with so much happening, it is certain that Peter had long forgotten about this episode, at the arrest of Jesus in the Garden, Peter again tries to protect Jesus' life, this time not with braggadocio but true bravery, wielding a sword. He truly didn’t get it, didn't get the logic of God’s plan.<ref>Had he not slept through Jesus’ prayers in the Garden, perhaps he would have better understood.</ref> Peter kinda missed that "''and... on the third day be raised''," business.    

Naturally, he was shocked that Jesus said he would be betrayed and killed, the purpose of which the Peter and the disciples failed to understand. The rebuke, then, is plainly that Peter was thinking about this life not the next, thinking, as Jesus told him, like a human and not like God.   

We’re worse than Peter, though— God's plan has been fully revealed to us and we are still stuck, “''thinking… as human beings do.''”