We are aware that some people called Jesus demon-possessed, even the “chief of Beelzebub.” But we forget that His disciples wondered about this at times as well. In Mark 8:32, Peter “began to rebuke” Jesus for His crazy talk about a becoming a “suffering messiah,” which was an oxymoron for good Jews like Peter. The Greek for “rebuke” here connotes exorcising a demon, so it’s as if Peter was trying to “rebuke” or cast out Jesus’ “misunderstanding” of the Messiah’s mission. Jesus turned the tables on Peter and “rebuked” (same word) him for being demon-possessed: “Get behind Me, Satan!” He said. (The tempter did not just appear to Jesus once in His mission. He came even through Jesus’ own friends. And like Jesus, we, too, live with the tempter all the time. But satan ought not to be in our line of vision, just in our shadow. Let’s get him behind us!) - JESUS MANIFESTO