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Get behind me, Satan

Words spoken by Jesus of Nazareth according to the New Testament From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"Get behind me, Satan", or "Go away, Satan", and in older translations such as the King James Version "Get thee behind me, Satan", is a saying of Jesus in the New Testament. It is first attested in Mark 8:33, where Jesus is addressing Peter; this is retold in Matthew 16:23 (Greek: Ὕπαγε ὀπίσω μου, Σατανᾶ, Hypage opisō mou, Satana). In the temptation of Jesus, in Matthew 4 and Luke 4:8, Jesus rebukes "the tempter" (Greek: ὁ πειραζῶν, ho peirazōn) or "the devil" (Greek: ὁ διάβολος, ho diabolos) with the same phrase.[1][2]

Get Thee Behind Me, Satan by Ilya Repin; 1895, oil on canvas, 46 × 62 cm, Russian Museum.

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