23 Jesus turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me; you do not have in mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns.” 24 Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny them...
33 But when Jesus turned and looked at his disciples, he rebuked Peter. “Get behind me, Satan!” he said. “You do not have in mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns.” The Way of the Cross 34 Then he called the crowd to him along with his disciples and said: “Wh...
Matthew 15:9 To Peter Jesus said, 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. Matthew 16:23 What does Jesus Christ say to false pastors of today who reject the teachings of Jesus Christ regar...
Jesus responded with a stunning rebuke of his own, “Get behind me, Satan! For you are setting your mind not on divine things but on human things” (Mark 8:33). At first glance we might scoff at Peter’s foolish audacity. But if we recall Daniel’s vision of the Son of Man, not...
I knew He was telling me that not only do chains of love hold me tight to Mom, but also to Him. I am held fast to God, my heavenly Father. And oh, what treasure I find in the definition for Father: for those who through Christ have been exalted to a specially close and intimate...
Whyte said she found godly counsel at her new church as the months passed, with the congregation helping her undergo “a process of inner healing,” saying that “the Lord delivered me.” Afterward, Whyte recounted hearing the Holy Spirit telling her to finally let her parents know about a...
“Then after [Judas] had taken the morsel, Satan entered into him. Jesus said to him, “What you are going to do, do quickly.” (Yes, Jesus knew!) Now no one at the table knew why he said this to him. Some thought that, because Judas had the moneybag, Jesus was telling him,...
behind James, points upward and seems to ask, “Is this God’s plan?” His gesture anticipates his later reunion with the resurrected Christ, a moment that was often represented in art with Thomas using his fingers to touch Christ’s wounds from thecrucifixionto quell his doubts.Peter, who...
Jesus was telling the people of Israel by those words that He was of God and that He, as a spirit-entity (as a Divine Person of the Triune God), had been with God long before He had even been born in human form. The fact that He used the precise words "I AM" in this sentence...
Jesus was telling the people of Israel by those words that He was of God and that He, as a spirit-entity (as a Divine Person of the Triune God), had been with God long before He had even been born in human form. The fact that He used the precise words "I AM" in this sentence...