More about Big Sixteen

I call this chapter Big Sixteen, because it is loaded with apostolic concepts. Here are a few more questions that can help us understand what Jesus teaches here and what he draws out of his Twelve.

6. After seeing Jesus and Peter walking on water during the tempest, the Twelve confess that Jesus is the Son of God. Also, in John's gospel, Nathaniel confesses Jesus as Son of God, King of Israel. How are these two earlier confessions different from Peter's confession here in ch. 16 that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of the living God?
7. Why is it significant that Jesus mention's Peter's father?
8. Is it a sign of weakness that Jesus will suffer? How would Blessed Sal answer this question?
9. Jesus rebukes Peter. Then he challenges the Twelve to take up their own crosses. How is this challenge connected to the rebuke?

Many concepts emerge that can help us become doers of the Word, and we will sort it out early tomorrow morning.

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