Markus 8:33

33 Maar Hij, Zich omkerende, en Zijn discipelen aanziende, bestrafte Petrus, zeggende: Ga heen, achter Mijn, satanas, want gij verzint niet de dingen, die Gods zijn, maar die der mensen zijn.

Markus 8:33 Meaning and Commentary

Mark 8:33

But when he had turned about
Upon Peter, and showed quick resentment at what he said:

and looked on his disciples;
he cast his eye toward, them at the same time, and expressed to them the same displeasure in his countenance, they being of the same mind:

he rebuked Peter, saying, get thee behind me, Satan: for thou
savourest not the things that be of God;
things which were according to the will of God, as the sufferings of Christ were: they were according to the determinate counsel of his will; what he had determined in his purposes and council should be; and what he had declared in the Scriptures of truth, the revelation of his will, would be; and in which, according to them, he should have a great concern himself, ( Isaiah 53:6 Isaiah 53:10 ) , and whereby all his divine perfections would be glorified, and therefore may well be said to be the things of God; and which ought to be savoured, minded, and attended to, as things of the greatest moment and importance: and which, though the apostle had often read of in the books of the Old Testament; yet either had not a clear understanding of them, as being the will of God; or however, they were greatly out of his view at this time, his mind being possessed with notions of a temporal kingdom, and of worldly honour and grandeur: wherefore it follows,

but the things that be of men;
as were the notions of Christ's being a temporal prince, that would set up a worldly kingdom, and deliver the Jews from the Roman yoke, and make his subjects happy, with an affluence of all worldly things; and particularly his favourites, as the disciples were: these were schemes of men's devising, and were suited to the corrupt nature, and carnal inclinations of men; and these things at present too much possessed Peter's mind: wherefore the Lord rebuked him in a very severe, though just manner; being touched in his most tender part, and dissuaded from that which his heart was set upon, and he came into the world for; whose keen resentment is seen by using a phrase he never did but to the devil himself, ( Matthew 4:10 ) ; (See Gill on Matthew 16:23).

Markus 8:33 In-Context

31 En Hij begon hun te leren, dat de Zoon des mensen veel moest lijden, en verworpen worden van de ouderlingen, en overpriesters, en Schriftgeleerden, en gedood worden, en na drie dagen wederom opstaan.

32 En dit woord sprak Hij vrij uit; en Petrus, Hem tot zich genomen hebbende, begon Hem te bestraffen;

33 Maar Hij, Zich omkerende, en Zijn discipelen aanziende, bestrafte Petrus, zeggende: Ga heen, achter Mijn, satanas, want gij verzint niet de dingen, die Gods zijn, maar die der mensen zijn.

34 En tot Zich geroepen hebbende de schare met Zijn discipelen, zeide Hij tot hen: Zo wie achter Mij wil komen, die verloochene zichzelven, en neme zijn kruis op, en volge Mij.

35 Want zo wie zijn leven zal willen behouden, die zal hetzelve verliezen; maar zo wie zijn leven zal verliezen, om Mijnentwil, en om des Evangelies wil, die zal hetzelve behouden.