Was This Aimed At Peter?

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Matthew 16:22

22Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. “Never, Lord!” he said. “This shall never happen to you!”

Matthew 16:23

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

This has rather shocked me seeing this passage…anyone care to try and comfort me in this?
 
Hes just called peter satan,how can he call somone satan but also allow him to he head of our church?
 
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Hes just called peter satan,how can he call somone satan but also allow him to he head of our church?
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Probably the same way he allowed him to be an apostle
 
I think you need to read one more verse.

Matthew 16:21 starts off by :

Matthew 16:21 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.

in Matthew 16:22, Peter was suggesting to Jesus that he not make the trip, or tempting him to avoid what is going to transpire.

Matthew 16:23 Jesus turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me; you do not have in mind the things of God, but the things of men.”

Jesus was not going to be tempted by Peter because He knew He must continue to Jerusalem and suffer on the cross.
 
As I understand it, that phrase was a common one used to tell another person that he was tempting the one who said it, as Satan tempts. Jesus wasn’t “naming” Peter Satan or anything of that kind.
 
“Satan” means “adversary” in Greek. As such, we need not believe Jesus was speaking of Lucifer, only that in that situation Peter was Christ’s adversary – one whose opinion is dangerous and misleading.

God did not give the Church to Peter because he was the most qualified – but because he was the most humbled. Peter knew what it was to fail his God, his best friend. He knew the gravity of sin better than anyone. His weakness made him more fit for a papacy than any strength a man has ever shown.
 
Satan is simply Hebrew for “adversary” or “opponent” and doesn’t even have to be a proper name. Peter was behaving as a satan (lowercase s) to Christ in the sense that he expressed opposition. Jesus isn’t calling Peter a devil or something like that.
 
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