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23But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.

Matthew 16:23

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  • For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. …

  • Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.

  • Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)

  • But when he had turned about and looked on his disciples, he rebuked Peter, saying, Get thee behind me, Satan: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but the things that be of men.

  • But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. …

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 21-23)

We have here Christ’s discourse with his disciples concerning his own sufferings; in which observe, I. Christ’s foretelling of his sufferings. Now he began to do it, and from this time he frequently spake of them. Some hints he had already given of his sufferings, as when he said, Destroy this temple : when he spake of the Son of man being lifted up , and of eating his flesh, and drinking his bloo…

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