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Lectio Divina

Mk 8: 27-35

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Context of the Gospel

Cesarea Philippi

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Outline of Mk 8: 27-33

  • V. 27: The purpose of Jesus is to discover the reality "Who do the people say that I am?"
  • V. 28: The answer of the disciples
  • V. 29: The question of Jesus still to the disciples, who do you say that I am? (still plural) and the answer of Peter
  • v. 31: First announcement of the Passion.
  • Vv. 32-33: Rebuking Peter and Jesus
  • Vv.34-35: invitation of Jesus to follow the cross

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Gospel Reading

  • 27 And Jesus went on with his disciples, to the villages of Caesarea Philippi; and on the way he asked his disciples, "Who do the people say that I am?"
  • 28 And they told him, "John the Baptist; and others say, Elijah; and others one of the prophets."
  • 29 And he asked them, "But who do you say that I am?" Peter answered him, "You are the Christ."
  • 30 And he charged them to tell no one about him.

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  • 31 And he began to teach them that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.
  • 32 And he said this plainly. And Peter took him, and began to rebuke him.
  • 33 But turning and seeing his disciples, he rebuked Peter, and said, "Get behind me, Satan! For you are not on the side of God, but of men.”

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  • 34 And he called to him the multitude with his disciples, and said to them, "If any man would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.
  • 35 For whoever would save his life will lose it; and whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel's will save it.

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Who do the people say that I am?

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“you are the Christ, the Messiah!”

    • Mk 8: 29

"You are the Christ, the Son of the living God."

    • Mt 16:16, Peter’s reply was different in Mat

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Mk 8:31

    • He began to teach them that it is must (necessary) the son of man suffer much and be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.

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Mk 9:31

    • he was teaching his disciples, saying to them, The Son of man will be delivered (paradi,dotai) into the hands of men, and they will kill him; and after three days he will rise."(avnasth,setai

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Mk 10:32-33

    • "We are going up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man will be delivered to the chief priests and the scribes, and they will condemn him to death, and deliver him to the Gentiles; and they will mock him, and spit upon him, and scourge him, and kill him; and after three days he will rise."

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Get Behind me, Satan!

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THE GOSPEL OF MARK

Mk 1:1

    • The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

Mk 8:29

    • "You are the Christ."

Mk 15: 39

    • The centurion said, "Truly this man was the Son of God!"

Recognizing Jesus as Son of God

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Spirtual blindness

  • At the beginning, healing of a blind man (Mk 8, 22-26)
  • The Confession of Peter
  • The three predictions of Jesus’ passion and death
  • At the end, the healing of another blind man (Mk 10, 46-52)