Mark 8:32

openly i. e. not publicly, but "plainly" (" pleinli," Wyclif) and "without disguise" Comp. John 11:14, "Then said Jesus unto them plainly, Lazarus is dead." Before this there had been intimations of the End, but then they had been dark and enigmatical. (a) The Baptist had twice pointed Him out as the Lamb of God destined to take away the sin of the world(John 1:29). (b) At the first Passover of His public ministry He Himself had spoken to the Jews of a Temple to be destroyed and rebuilt in three days(John 2:19), and to Nicodemus of a lifting up of the Son of Man, even as Moses had lifted up the serpent in the wilderness(John 3:12-16); (c) He had intimated moreover to the Apostles that a day would come when the Bridegroom should be taken from them(Matthew 9:15), and (d) in the synagogue at Capernaum He had declared that He was about to giveHis flesh for the Life of the world(John 6:47-51). Now for the first time He dwelt on His awful Future distinctly, and with complete freedom of speech.

And Peter The selfsame Peter, who a moment before had witnessed so noble and outspoken a confession to his Lord's Divinity.

took him i. e. took Him aside(and so Tyndale and Cranmer render it), by the hand or by the robe, and began earnestly and lovingly to remonstrate with Him. The idea of a suffering Messiah was abhorrent to him and to all the Twelve.