Following immediately upon Peter’s confession of faith, Jesus dramatically contrasts that faith, which came from God, to Peter’s rejection of the cross, which Jesus calls satanic. There is, then, no real knowing of who Jesus is apart from the cross. This passage then goes even a step further to connect the paschal mystery to God’s eschatological promise. The death and resurrection of Jesus is the judgment and the reward. The reign of the Son of Man has already been inaugurated and its reality upturns the logical view of reality to which we cling in such a way that we are no longer even able to distinguish between life and death. We are, as always, utterly dependent on God’s grace.
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