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What's going on with all this?
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What's going on is that Mark is trying to make an important point,
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maybe even to his fellow believers at the time.
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Apparently, what Peter doesn't understand about Jesus is that
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Jesus has to suffer and has to die,
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and if that causes a redefinition of Peter's notion
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of what a Messiah is, so be it.
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Peter needs to work with a redefined notion of the Christ, the Messiah,
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if he doesn't include the necessity of suffering in that notion.
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Let's imagine the context for this kind of message.
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The rapid fire style of Mark is one of the
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if you notice--did you notice how many times