Jesus and the will of God: You are seeing things merely from a human point of view, not from God's. Matthew 16:23

The Gospel of Saint Matthew relates that Jesus, after performing the second multiplication of the loaves and revealing himself to his disciples privately as the true Messiah, happened to be near Caesarea Philippi when he announced his passion to them for the first time. Jesus had a destiny to fulfill on earth, and nothing could prevent that, Jesus was to be betrayed, tried by Pontius Pilate, and crucified.
And the Gospel of Saint Matthew relates that this destiny of Jesus contradicted the will of the prince of this world, the Evil One, and thus a situation similar to that which Jesus experienced when he was tempted in the desert occurred, a situation in which the Lord rejected all the pleasures of this world if he worshipped the Evil One.
This story shows Peter in a situation completely contrary to the one that occurred when, inspired by God, he understood that Jesus was the Messiah, the savior. Peter was tempted by the Evil One and committed the sin of trying to prevent Jesus from fulfilling his destiny. God's plan was for Jesus to pay for the sins of humanity, to achieve his redemption.
The Gospel of Matthew recounts the dialogue that took place between Jesus and Peter, after Jesus announced to his disciples about his passion, with these words:
"Peter took him aside and began to reprimand him for saying such things. 'Heaven forbid, Lord,' he said. 'This will never happen to you!'
Jesus turned to Peter and said, 'Get away from me, Satan! You are a dangerous trap to me. You are seeing things merely from a human point of view, not from God's'" Matthew 16:22-23.
This story, as happened to the apostles, shows that men cannot always understand the hidden designs of God; the power to see the world with the eyes of God is a grace that few privileged people can access, and this is what the disciples were eventually able to realize.
With this very special announcement, Lord Jesus wanted to begin preparing his disciples for what was to come, the most difficult moment of the new testament: the shepherd would no longer be in the world, and the sheep would be scattered, a moment of desolation and anguish that would conclude with the arrival of the Holy Spirit over the apostles in tongues of fire with his power at the celebration of Pentecost in the city of Jerusalem.

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