A Journey of Faith (Part II of IV) After Peter’s great confession, Jesus began to explain to His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem, and suffer many things from the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed and be raised on the third day.Although the disciples had understood that Jesus was God’s Messiah, they were still thinking in terms of a military Messiah, who would defeat the Romans and lead Israel to power. Peter, coming down from the mountain top confession of Jesus as Lord, caught hold of Jesus, and without giving Jesus time to turn and face ...