Mark 8:33

8:33 But after turning and looking at his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said, “Get behind me, Satan. You are not setting your mind on God’s interests, but on man’s.” ¹ 

Mark 9:2

The Transfiguration

9:2 Six days later ²  Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John and led them alone up a high mountain privately. And he was transfigured before them, ³ 

Mark 9:5

9:5 So ⁴  Peter said to Jesus, ⁵  “Rabbi, it is good for us to be here. Let us make three shelters ⁶  – one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.”

Mark 14:54

14:54 And Peter had followed him from a distance, up to the high priest’s courtyard. He ⁷  was sitting with the guards ⁸  and warming himself by the fire.

Mark 14:72

14:72 Immediately a rooster ⁹  crowed a second time. Then ¹⁰  Peter remembered what Jesus had said to him: “Before a rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times.” And he broke down and wept. ¹¹ 

¹ tn Grk “people’s.”

² tn Grk “And after six days.”

³ sn In 1st century Judaism and in the NT, there was the belief that the righteous get new, glorified bodies in order to enter heaven (1 Cor 15:42-49; 2 Cor 5:1-10). This transformation means the righteous will share the glory of God. One recalls the way Moses shared the Lord’s glory after his visit to the mountain in Exod 34. So the disciples saw Jesus transfigured, and they were getting a sneak preview of the great glory that Jesus would have (only his glory is more inherent to him as one who shares in the rule of the kingdom).

³ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.

⁴ tn Grk “And answering, Peter said to Jesus.” The participle ἀποκριθείς (apokriqeis) is redundant and has not been translated.

⁵ tn Or “dwellings,” “booths” (referring to the temporary booths constructed in the celebration of the feast of Tabernacles).

⁴ tn Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.

⁵ sn The guards would have been the guards of the chief priests who had accompanied Judas to arrest Jesus.

⁵ tn This occurrence of the word ἀλέκτωρ (alektwr, “rooster”) is anarthrous and consequently may not point back explicitly to the rooster which had crowed previously in v. 68. The reason for the anarthrous construction is most likely to indicate generically that some rooster crowed. Further, the translation of ἀλέκτωρ as an indefinite noun retains the subtlety of the Greek in only hinting at the Lord’s prediction v. 30. See also NAB, TEV, NASB.

⁶ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.

⁷ tn Grk “he wept deeply.”