Matt 15-16

Yo!

My thought for this passage was triggered by verse 21 "From that time on Jesus began to explain to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, chief priests and teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life."

Until this time Jesus had been healing. He had been teaching. He had been living among the disciples. He had done miracles. He had been calling people to himself. He had been questioned by the Pharisees.

These things he had done with authority. He had done with confidence. He had done these things as Son of God and Son of Man. But now that His disciples believed He was the Christ, now is when He started to unpack what all that meant.

The Christ, the Messiah, the Anointed One sent to save the lost, sent to die on the cross, sent to pay the price that we couldn't so that by it's payment we could know the Father, Son and Spirit.

But it was only now that He acknowledged it. Not earlier. Only after God had revealed this to Peter.

This may be going along with the fact that it wasn't His time yet to be revealed fully since again he cautions them to not tell others. But then, why did He ask? Hmmm.