Session 6

Get Behind (Mark 8:31-33)

31 Then he began to teach them that it was necessary for the Son of Man
to suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, chief priests,
and scribes, be killed, and rise after three days.
32 He spoke openly about this. Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him.
33 But turning around and looking at his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said, “
Get behind me, Satan!
You are not thinking about God’s concerns but human concerns.”

Compare:

Use Understand the Context (p. 53)
and verses 31-33

summarize Jesus’s questions and Peter’s confession in Mark 8:27-30.

Encourage adults to identify and talk about some key differences
in Peter’s words and Jesus’s reactions

compare verses 27-30 to verses 31-33.

Ask:

• Why is it challenging to let Jesus be the leader of our lives?
• How do we often try to redefine Him according to our beliefs and understanding?

Observe:

Peter rebuked Jesus,
and Jesus responded with an even stronger rebuke.

Emphasize that Peter was promoting a worldview that diminished Jesus’s death.

Share that the cross was central to Jesus’s mission,
and He rejected every suggestion that it was not necessary for providing salvation.