Red sky at night sailors delight, red sky in morning, sailors take warning?
Everyone wants a sign from Jesus and he's just done, with signs. I'm curious what more these people want. I realize that the Pharisees may have not seen with their own eyes the miracles he has performed, but surely they know someone who has.
The disciples are again showing little faith when they realize that they haven't any food to eat. Jesus again is like "really? Did I not feed like a gazillion people with 2 pieces of bread and a fish!? Seriously men! Have a little faith"
Then it gets crazy dramatic. He promises Peter, the keys to heaven (a wouldn't have imagined the pearly gates to be locked?). These couple of verses sets the stage for Catholicism, which I'm sure my dear friend will expand upon.
Jesus also explains that he will indeed die and rise.
He gets a visit from Moses and Elijah, which I must admit in my mind looks just like the last scene in Return of the Jedi when Vadar and Obi Won are standing behind Luke.(This is in Luke!! Hummmmm)
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Okeydokey. So, in Matt. 16:18-19 is the whole premise on which Catholics base the Pope's authority. Two verses. Of course, they ignore the fact that Jesus more likely was referring to the belief in Him that Peter was displaying at the time. Because it is this kind of faith and belief upon which God's church (bride) are founded...not the man, Peter. This should especially be convincing since only 4 verses later Peter does not display proper faith and Jesus calls him Satan, etc. We notice that in these three parallel readings Jesus tells Peter the good stuff once, but calls him out on his non-belief and calls him Satan twice (Mark 8:33 is especially telling). And at the end of the Luke reading a controversy even brews among the disciples about which one would be the greatest, and Jesus squashes all of that, too...not reaffirming Peter as "special". So if you take all of this as well as when Jesus called Peter, ye of little faith, and all of the tremendous things that were said about John the Baptist and Paul, then it is clear that Jesus was talking about that belief in Him that Peter showed for that brief moment and not Peter the man. This is no different then when atheists try to take one verse out of context while ignoring many, many other verses that make it clear what the true meaning of that one verse is. For anyone to think the Pope now and through the generations was given Jesus power and authority because of these two verses is, quite frankly, delusional.
Tomorrow is Matt. 17 and Mark 9
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