Get behind me, Satan

For the 2005 White Stripes album, see Get Behind Me Satan. For the 1936 Irving Berlin song, see Get Thee Behind Me Satan.

"Get behind me, Satan," also rendered "Get thee behind me, Satan" and "Go away, Satan," is a saying of Jesus recorded in the New Testament. It appears in Mark 8:33 and Matthew 16:23 as a rebuke to Peter.

A related form occurs in the temptation narrative, where Matthew 4:10 has "Go away, Satan." Luke 4:8 contains the longer wording in later manuscripts and translations such as the King James Version, while the earliest witnesses lack it and most modern translations omit it. Within each context the phrase functions as a decisive rejection of a proposal judged contrary to the will of God.

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