And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him, saying: far be it from you, Lord! This shall never happen to you. Peter's rebuke — far be it from you — is the disciples' immediate resistance to the passion prediction. The one who just confessed Jesus as the Christ cannot integrate the suffering Christ with his understanding of the Messiah. The rebuke communicates the disciples' messianic expectation: the Christ cannot suffer and die — that is a contradiction in terms for Peter's framework.

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