But to those who did accept him he gave power to become children of God, to those who believed in his name John 1:12 Yet ours were the sufferings he was bearing, ours the sorrows he was carrying, while we thought of him as someone being punished and struck with affliction by God; Isaiah 53:4 Whoever believes and is baptised will be saved; whoever does not believe will be condemned. Mark 16:16 In the beginning was the Word: the Word was with God and the Word was God. John 1:1 From then onwards Jesus began to make it clear to his disciples that he was destined to go to Jerusalem and suffer grievously at the hands of the elders and chief priests and scribes and to be put to death and to be raised up on the third day. Then, taking him aside, Peter started to rebuke him. 'Heaven preserve you, Lord,' he said, 'this must not happen to you.' But he turned and said to Peter, 'Get behind me, Satan! You are an obstacle in my path, because you are thinking not as God thinks but as human beings do.' Matthew 16:21-23
