Matthew 16 • “On This Rock” • Constable
Mar 22nd, 2010 by mr.b
Matthew 16:13 – 20 • Series: The Hard Sayings of Jesus • March 21, 2010
Far from being some broad edict, this – I think – is a private word to Peter. Though the Bible is altogether useful, it’s not altogether about us or the whole of church experience. This has nothing more to do with us than Jesus’ assurances to Peter in John 21 about the kind of death he’d die. This was the fulfillment, simply, of what Jesus had promised him in John 1 – Simon becomes Cephas – which means Rock.
