Matthew 16:22. Then Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far from thee, Lord: this shall not be unto thee.
The margin reads, "Pity thyself, Lord," as though Peter meant to say, "God grant, of his infinite mercy, that this may not be true! How can it be that such an one as thou art should die?" He probably thought that Christ’s death would be the end of his kingdom, the ruin of all his people’s hopes, the quenching of the light of Israel; so, in his zeal for his Master’s cause, he cried, "This shall not be unto thee."
Matthew 16:22. Then Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far from thee, Lord: this shall not be unto thee.
The margin reads, "Pity thyself, Lord," as though Peter meant to say, "God grant, of his infinite mercy, that this may not be true! How can it be that such an one as thou art should die?" He probably thought that Christ’s death would be the end of his kingdom, the ruin of all his people’s hopes, the quenching of the light of Israel; so, in his zeal for his Master’s cause, he cried, "This shall not be unto thee."