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until they see that the kingdom of God has come with power.
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What's going on here?
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You have the correct identification of Jesus,
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even according to Mark as the Messiah.
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You have the charge to secrecy in 8:30;
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you have the passion prediction one of the passion predictions
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and the first of several that we'll see in Mark.
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Jesus saying, this is going to happen,
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and then you have this word,
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"And he said this plainly and clearly to them,"
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a nice little clue. Then you have Peter's misunderstanding,
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but what does Peter misunderstand? That's what we'll ask.