“This above all:
to thine own self be true,
and it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.” -William Shakespeare
Thank you brother Bill for another wonderful, dead-center, word from above......
Depart from Me for I never knew you. Sheep and goats.
Matthew 16:21-23
From that time Jesus began to shew to his disciples, that he must go to Jerusalem, and suffer many things from the ancients and scribes and chief priests, and be put to death, and the third day rise again. [22] AND PETER TAKING HIM, BEGAN TO REBUKE HIM, SAYING: LORD, BE IT FAR FROM THEE, THIS SHALL NOT BE UNTO THEE. [23] Who turning, said to Peter: Go behind me, Satan, thou art a scandal unto me: because thou savourest not the things that are of God, but the things that are of men.
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Ah, Peter’s one statement, not wanting Our Lord to die, it’s so human, he didn’t realize.
Peter had answered Our Lord like no other in the earlier verse, Matthew 16:16.
“Thou art Christ, the Son of the Living God.”
Peter was leader of the Apostles and Our Lord’s choice to lead His Church on earth. Peter, the “rock.” A man most special, his very name changed by God, he was once Simon.
Here’s a marvelous verse about Peter.
Acts 5:15
Insomuch that they brought forth the sick into the streets, and laid them on beds and couches, that when Peter came, his shadow at the least, might overshadow any of them, and they might be delivered from their infirmities.
Reading 2 1 Jn 3:18-24
Children, let us love not in word or speech
but in deed and truth.
Now this is how we shall know that we belong to the truth
and reassure our hearts before him
in whatever our hearts condemn,
for God is greater than our hearts and knows everything.
Beloved, if our hearts do not condemn us,
we have confidence in God
and receive from him whatever we ask,
because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him.
And his commandment is this:
we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ,
and love one another just as he commanded us.
Those who keep his commandments remain in him, and he in them,
and the way we know that he remains in us
is from the Spirit he gave us.
Gospel Jn 15:1-8
Jesus said to his disciples:
“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vine grower.
He takes away every branch in me that does not bear fruit,
and every one that does he prunes so that it bears more fruit.
You are already pruned because of the word that I spoke to you.
Remain in me, as I remain in you.
Just as a branch cannot bear fruit on its own
unless it remains on the vine,
so neither can you unless you remain in me.
I am the vine, you are the branches.
Whoever remains in me and I in him will bear much fruit,
because without me you can do nothing.
Anyone who does not remain in me
will be thrown out like a branch and wither;
people will gather them and throw them into a fire
and they will be burned.
If you remain in me and my words remain in you,
ask for whatever you want and it will be done for you.
By this is my Father glorified,
that you bear much fruit and become my disciples.”
hello,
Peter should be defended not put down, don’t you think?
The wording in Matthew shares Peter’s words, so we know
what happened. How he loved Our Lord.