Good for you, Simon, son of John. Jesus here gives Peter's full name to emphasize what he is saying. Because this truth. Human reasoning did not tell him this. The Jews did not expect the Messiah to be Divine. No one can make this declaration from the heart unless the Holy Spirit has revealed this to him through the message of the Gospel (1 John 4:1-2; 1 Corinthians 12:3). God spoke to Peter directly. God speaks to us through his Son that is, through the New Testament which records for us everything that Jesus said and did, which we need to know,

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