Simon Peter answered. He spoke immediately, putting into words what the others believed also, You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God. This declaration says that Jesus is both the Messiah (Christ means the same thing) and Divine [God in human form see John 1:1-5]. What Peter declares here, sets the pattern for all the followers of Jesus, and is the very foundation stone of the church which Jesus built.
Verse Matthew 16:16. _THOU ART THE CHRIST, THE SON OF THE LIVING GOD._] Every word here is emphatic - a most _concise_, and yet _comprehensive_, confession of faith. _The Christ_, or _Messiah_, poin...
See also Mark 8:27, and Luke 9:18. CESAREA PHILIPPI - There were two cities in Judea called Caesarea. One was situated on the borders of the Mediterranean (See the notes at Acts 8:40
4. THE GREAT ANNOUNCEMENTS OF THE REJECTED KING CONCERNING HIMSELF. CHAPTER 16 1. Pharisees and Sadducees Asking a Sign. (Matthew 16:1 .) 2. Instructions Concerning the Leaven. (Matthew 16:5 .) 3. P...
THE GREAT CONFESSION AND THE FIRST VIEW OF THE CROSS (Mark 8:27 *, Luke 9:18). Omitting the cure of the blind man (but _cf. Matthew 9:27_), Mt. passes to the significant episode of Cæ sarea Philippi....
When Jesus had come into the districts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, "Who do men say that the Son of Man is?" They said, "Some say John the Baptist, others Elijah, others Jeremiah, or...
BLIND TO THE SIGNS (Matthew 16:1-4)...
THE CHRIST. the Messiah. The 1611 edition of the Authorized Version reads "Thou art Christ"....
_Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God_ This confession not only sees in Jesus the promised Messiah, but in the Messiah recognises the divine nature. He is more than one of the old prophets r...
The great Confession of St Peter, and the Promise given to him Mark 8:27-30: The question is put "while they were on the way," the words "the Son of the living God" are omitted, as also the blessing...
ΣῪ ΕἾ Ὁ ΧΡΙΣΤῸΣ Ὁ ΥἹῸΣ ΤΟΥ͂ ΘΕΟΥ͂ ΤΟΥ͂ ΖΩ͂ΝΤΟΣ. This confession not only sees in Jesus the promised Messiah, but in the Messiah recognises the divine nature. It was this claim that brought upon Jesus...
THE GREAT CONFESSION OF ST PETER, AND THE PROMISE GIVEN TO HIM Mark 8:27-30 : The question is put ‘while they were on the way,’ the words ‘the Son of the living God’ are omitted, as also the blessing...
Ver 13. When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, "Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?" 14. And they said, "Some say that thou art John the Baptist; s...
_I WILL BUILD MY CHURCH MATTHEW 16:13-18:_ Jesus promised to build His church. It is still true, "Unless the Lord builds the house, They labor in vain who build it..." (Psalms 127:1) Jesus was not Joh...
ΆΠΟΚΡΙΘΕΊΣ _aor. part. pass. (dep.) от_ ΑΠΟΚΡΊΝΟΜΑΙ отвечать; _см._ Matthew 16:2. ΕΙ _praes. ind. act. 2 pers. sing. от_ ΕΙΜΊ (G1510). Ό ΧΡΙΣΤΌΣ (G5547) Мессия, Помазанный, при использовании без опре...
DISCOURSE: 1374 PETER’S CONFESSION OF CHRIST REWARDED Matthew 16:15. He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. A...
Section 41 NEAR CAESAREA PHILIPPI JESUS TESTS HIS DISCIPLES (Parallels: Mark 8:27 to Mark 9:1; Luke 9:18-27) TEXT: 16:13-28 13 Now when Jesus came into the parts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his d...
And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. AND SIMON PETER ANSWERED AND SAID, THOU ART THE CHRIST, THE SON OF THE LIVING GOD. He does not say, 'Scribes and P...
6 Leaven stands for corrupt doctrine (12). Our Lord was concerned that the disciples should not be tainted by digesting the teaching of His enemies. But all that they were concerned about was the poss...
THE CHRIST] i.e. 'the Messiah.' So also St. Mark; but St. Luke has 'the Christ of God.' THE SON OF THE LIVING GOD] These words, together with the next three vv., are peculiar to St. Matthew, but are n...
ST. PETER'S CONFESSION (Mark 8:27; Luke 9:18). Jesus now undertook another distant excursion, partly to escape the hostility of the Pharisees (Matthew 16:4), but chiefly to hold private converse with...
ST. PETER'S GREAT CONFESSION 1-4. A sign from heaven demanded (Mark 8:11 cp. Luke 11:16 : see on Matthew 12:38)....
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 16 THE *JEWISH LEADERS ASK FOR A *MIRACLE 16:1-4 V1 Some *Pharisees and some *Sadducees came to Jesus. They wanted to test him. So th...
THOU ART THE CHRIST, THE SON OF THE LIVING GOD. — The variations in the other Gospels — St. Mark giving simply, “Thou art the Christ,” and St. Luke, “The Christ of God” — are interesting in their bear...
Chapter 13 The New Departure (Founding of the Church.) - Matthew 16:13; Matthew 17:1 THIS conversation at Caesarea Philippi is universally regarded as marking a new era in the life of Christ. His rej...
Σίμων Πέτρος : now as always spokesman for the Twelve. There may be deeper natures among them (John?), but he is the most energetic and outspoken, though withal emotional rather than intellectual; str...
_New question and answer_....
_At Caesarea Philippi_ (Mark 8:27 to Mark 9:1; Luke 9:18-27). The crossing of the lake (Matthew 16:5) proved to be the prelude to a second long excursion northwards
“THE SON OF THE LIVING GOD” Matthew 16:13-20 The shadows of Calvary were beginning to gather and the Lord desired to prepare His friends for all that it stood for. His questions elicited Peter's mag...
What a very wonderful fact in the life and ministry of Jesus is His power of suppressing the marvelous powers He possessed. He never used them save in divine wisdom and love. How easily He could have...
Simon Peter answering. As Simon Peter had been constituted the first in the college of apostles, (Matthew x. 2.) and therefore surpasseth the others in dignity as much as in zeal, without hesitation,...
CAESAREA-PHILIPPI Matthew 16:13-16; Mark 8:27-29; Luke 9:18-20. This is the northern terminus of our Savior's ministry, two days' journey on horseback from the Sea of Galilee up the Jordan Valley to t...
"When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am? (14) And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, Elia...
Chapter 8, which opens the portion that comes before us tonight, is a striking illustration as well as proof of the method which God has been pleased to employ in giving us the apostle Matthew's accou...
_THE SON OF MAN THE SON OF GOD_ ‘When Jesus came into the coasts of Cæsarea Philippi, He asked His disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?… And Simon Peter answered and said, Tho...
16._Thou art the Christ. _The confession is short, but it embraces all that is contained in our salvation; for the designation _Christ_, or _Anointed_, includes both an everlasting Kingdom and an ever...
Chapter 16 goes farther than the revelation of the simple grace of God. Jesus reveals what was about to be formed in the counsels of that grace, where He was owned, shewing the rejection of the proud...
AND SIMON PETER ANSWERED AND SAID,.... Either of his own accord, and for himself, being a warm, zealous, and forward man; one that dearly loved Christ, truly believed in him, and was ready to make a c...
And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. Ver. 16. _Simon Peter answered, &c._] As the mouth of the company, and one that being, haply, older, and surely bold...
_When Jesus came_, &c. There was a large interval of time between what has been related already, and what follows. The passages that follow were but a short time before our Lord suffered: _came into t...
AND SIMON PETER ANSWERED AND SAID, THOU ART THE CHRIST, THE SON OF THE LIVING GOD....
The confession:...
The enmity against the true Messiah increases now to the point of Pharisee's and Sadducee's (usually hostile to each other) conspiring together to tempt Him, in an effort to trap Him in some way. Both...
13-20 Peter, for himself and his brethren, said that they were assured of our Lord's being the promised Messiah, the Son of the living God. This showed that they believed Jesus to be more than man. O...
Ver. 15,16. Mark saith, MARK 8:29, _Thou art the Christ._ Luke saith, LUKE 9:20, _Peter answering said, The Christ of God, _ that is, the Messiah. You that are my disciples and apostles, what is your...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III But he to whom the Father which is in heaven has revealed Him,[363] Tertullian Against Praxeas even as Peter did on another occasion: "Thou art the Son of God."[2...
Matthew 16:16 G1161 Simon G4613 Peter G4074 answered G611 (G5679) said G2036 (G5627) You G4771 are...
‘And Simon Peter answered and said, “You are the Christ (Messiah), the Son of the living God.” ' As we would expect it is Peter who blurts out a response. The disciples appear to have been quite willi...
PETER OPENLY CONFESSES THAT JESUS IS THE MESSIAH (16:13-20). In Matthew 11:25 Jesus had spoken of the fact it was His Father who revealed things to ‘babes', including the truth about the Son Whom He a...
Matthew 16:16. SIMON PETER; answering for the others as well as for himself. THOU ART THE CHRIST (‘the Messiah'), THE SON OF THE LIVING GOD. Peter's reply is a decided, solemn, profound confession, t...
Peter is the spokesman now: "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God" (Συ ε ο Χριστος ο υιος του θεου του ζωντος). It was a noble confession, but not a new claim by Jesus. Peter had made it bef...
Matthew 16:15 , MATTHEW 16:21 Peter's Confession of Faith, and Christ's Prediction of His Passion. I. At the end of the second year of His ministry, Christ wrought the astounding miracle of multiplyi...
Matthew 16:13 I. According to the reply of Peter to Christ's general question, the impression which Christ made upon the various classes with whom He came in contact was, with rare exceptions, that He...
CONTENTS: Jesus' rebuke of blind Pharisees. The symbol of leaven interpreted. Peter's confession of the deity of Jesus. Jesus foretells His death and resurrection. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Peter, Sata...
Matthew 16:1. _The pharisees also with the sadducees came,_ soliciting _a sign from heaven: Matthew 12:38_. This was the second time, and they received the appellation of hypocrites, as professing the...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 16:16 SIMON PETER REPLIED. Peter acts as spokesman for the Twelve (compare Matthew 15:15). CHRIST means “Mess
PETER SAYS JESUS IS THE MESSIAH MATTHEW 16:13-20; MARK 8:27-30; LUKE 9:18-21; MATTHEW 16:13 When Jesus came into the coasts of Ca
1-28 CHAPTER 16 _And there came unto Him Pharisees_, &c. They had previously asked for a sign (Matthew 12:38). But here again they asked for one because of the miracle of the multiplication of the lo...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 16:13. COASTS.—_Parts_ (R.V.). _I.e_. neighbourhood. There were various inhabited places in the locality (see Mark 8:27). CÆSAREA PHILIPPI.—Probably on the site of the Old Tes...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 16:1 _The Pharisees and Sadducees desire a sign. _(Mark 8:11.) MATTHEW 16:1 THE PHARISEES ALSO WITH the Saddueees;
The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came [And now they are seeking to trap Him], and they desire that he would show them a sign from heaven. And he answered and said unto them: When it is evening, y...
1 John 4:15; 1 John 5:20; 1 John 5:5; 1 Thessalonians 1:9; Acts 14:15;
Peter — Who was generally the most forward to speak....
Why does Peter’s confession here differ from that recorded in Mark and Luke? PROBLEM: Peter’s confession of Christ in Caesarea Philippi is stated differently in the three Gospels: SOLUTION: There are...