Mark 8 Footnotes

8:33 Jesus intended his statement to Peter to shock some sense into the disciples. Chapters 8–10 of Mark form a transition from Jesus’s ministry to his passion. In this section Jesus three times prepared his disciples for the goal of his ministry—his death—by trying to correct his followers’ power-centered understanding of what his messianic role meant (8:34-35; 9:30-36; 10:32-45). Peter, like Satan, would undermine the purposes of God by self-centeredly seeking the glory of the messianic kingdom too quickly (Mt 4:8-10).