8:30
“Jesus warned them not to tell anyone about Him”. Prior to the cross people would have had a completely wrong understanding of what this meant. We all first need to recognise that our number one problem is our sin. The general picture was of a messiah who would set them free from Roman occupation. They needed to be confronted with their own sin before they would be ready to truly see who Jesus was. The reality of the cross, of what they had done to the Messiah would do this. Of course, the disciples had a long way to go as well.
8:31
It is from this point that Jesus “began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things”. Although the disciples had recognised that Jesus was the Messiah, they did not know what the full implications of that were. It is also noteworthy that Jesus uses the term “Son of Man”. The disciples, along with most of the Jews, had a preconceived idea of what Messiah meant, namely political freedom. The term “Son of Man” did not have this “problem”. The phrase “son of man” occurs frequently in Ezekiel, used by God of Ezekiel, and is a reference to his humanity, “Son of Man” used in a messianic sense is found in Daniel 7:13. Jesus tells them that He must be rejected by the religious leaders. Rejected means counted as worthless. He would then be killed, and would rise again after three days.
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