Perhaps we’re all a little bit of the devil.

In our Gospel lesson today, Peter is doing one of the things he does best and not getting it. This time it is a little surprising because he had just seemed to get it when he declared Jesus the Christ and the Son of the living God.

Now however, Peter objects to the very idea of Jesus needing to die.

“Get behind me Satan! You are a stone that could make me stumble, for you are not thinking God’s thoughts but human thoughts!”

This is Peter, the rock on whom Jesus’s church is to be built, and he is called Satan!

If Peter is Satan, thinking human thoughts and not godly thoughts, then perhaps we’re all a bit of Satan.