Two times Luke mentions how people thought You were John or Elijah. Many people thought You were not who You were, but Peter knew. You are the Messiah! The one closest to You knew. The one closest to You was the only one to "figure it out." So, that's why You didn't want them to tell anyone - if you know, you know!
And the ones who were following You would know. They put You first - above family, above jobs, above everything. You had pretty strict demands on Your followers.
Now I wonder, if in my present spiritual state, I would have known. I definitely have not forsaken family, material comforts and ridicule to follow You. If no one had ever told me that You were the Messiah, was my soul is such a condition as to have it revealed? Is it now?
Probably not! But, at least when You said that You would die and rise from the dead in three days, I hope I would have remembered that when it actually happened (call back to when I was going verse by verse and the disciples were shocked when they saw Jesus).
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