21 And he strictly charged and commanded them to tell this to no one, 22 saying, “The Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be raised.” (Luke 9)
Peter had just blurted out what everyone else was convinced up, but afraid to say out loud. It was almost blasphemous if they were wrong: "Jesus is the Christ, the One God had promised to send." We often wonder why it was such a hush, hush secret, since He had come to save the world. We are simply told thinks like "His hour had not yet come." In other words, He was ready to save, but the world wasn't so ready for Him. We like to come up with these "why" questions to avoid other ones, like: "Why don't we tell people more often of our faith in Christ?" That is something He HAS told us to do, yet we fail to do it well. Let's stop questioning why Jesus did or said something so much, and focus more on our failures to do what we've been told, or to do what we've been told not to do.
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