[JustSayNoToNannies]

That verses 17 and 19 are about Peter STILL doesn't explain why Christ said, "And I tell you that you are Peter". Did He think Peter had forgotten his name?

Jesus was saying that while you Peter are a rock, solid as a rock, albeit a little rock, I will build my church on this massive mountain of a rock, ME...

Why was it necessary to contrast Himself with Peter - who just one verse earlier acknwledged Him as "the Christ, the Son of the living God"?

[Elsie]

One: Why was it necessary to contrast Himself with Peter -

The Other: who just one verse earlier acknwledged Him as "the Christ, the Son of the living God"?

What has ONE to do with the OTHER?

[Elsie]

Why was it necessary to contrast Himself with Peter - who just four verses later was REBUKED soundly??

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23 Jesus turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me; you do not have in mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns.”