This pericope will actually come up twice in year B. First will be this coming Sunday in Lent and then with a slightly longer pericope (8:27-38) in mid-September. In September we’ll get the fuller scene as Jesus asks who people say he is and Peter answering that he is the Messiah. Then of course, this scene for this week becomes more comical (or sad depending on your take) because Peter is then immediately scolded for not understanding what Jesus must go through. But even though there are many months between these texts, it can be challenging to preach on the same text multiple times in a year. Especially if you are taking a narrative approach. And truthfully, Epiphany into Lent doesn’t do us any favors in understanding Mark in year B. There is very little narrative lead up to this text. And so, while I think we can take some time to remind folks that Peter did just proclaim Jesus as the Messiah, there’s only so much we can do to catch people up on the narrative. That will be much easier to do in September after we’ve been going through Mark chapter by chapter.