Mark 8:33

when he had turned about and looked on his disciples Observe the graphic touches of St Mark. The Apostle who had restrained the Evangelist from preserving the record of that which redounded to his highest honour, suppresses the record neither of his own mistaken zeal, nor of the terrible rebuke it called forth.

Get thee behind me The very words which He had used to the Tempter in the wilderness (Matthew 4:10), for in truth the Apostle was adopting the very argument which the great Enemy had adopted there.

thou savourest not Thou art thinking of, thy thoughts centre on. This rendering of the Greek word for "to think" is suggested by the Latin sapere, which is found in the Vulgate and retained from Wyclif's Version. It is derived directly from the substantive savour, Fr. saveur, Lat. sapor, from sapere. Thus Latimer quoting 1 Corinthians 13:11 writes, "When I was a child I savouredas a child." "In confusion of them that so saverenearthely thinges." Chaucer, Parson's Tale. "Thy words shew," our Lord would say to the Apostle, "that in these things thou enterest not into the thoughts and plans of God, but considerest all things only from the ideas of men. This attempt of thine to dissuade Me from My -baptism of death" is a sin against the purposes of God."