{"id":3118,"date":"2014-01-04T10:22:46","date_gmt":"2014-01-04T16:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=3118"},"modified":"2025-06-27T07:04:29","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T13:04:29","slug":"matthew-1613-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=3118","title":{"rendered":"Matthew 16:13-17"},"content":{"rendered":"

13\u00a0When Jesus came into the region of Caesarea Philippi, He asked His disciples, saying,\u00a0\u201cWho do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

14\u00a0So they said, \u201cSome\u00a0say\u00a0John the Baptist, some Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

15\u00a0He said to them,\u00a0\u201cBut who do you say that I am?\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

16\u00a0Simon Peter answered and said, \u201cYou are the Christ, the Son of the living God.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

17\u00a0Jesus answered and said to him,\u00a0\u201cBlessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed\u00a0this\u00a0to you, but My Father who is in heaven.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

This account also appears in Mark 8:27-30<\/span><\/a> and Luke 9:18-21.<\/h3>\n

Caesarea Philippi (v.13) \u2014 a town in the northwest corner of Galilee, near the source of the Jordan River<\/h3>\n

It was clear to everyone that Jesus was someone out of the ordinary, someone who had to be explained supernaturally.<\/h3>\n

John the Baptist (v.14) \u2014 Herod thought this was who Christ was (Matthew 14:2<\/span><\/a>)<\/h3>\n

Elijah (v.14) \u2014 his coming is prophesied in Malachi 4:5<\/h3>\n

Jeremiah (v.14) \u2014 he is sometimes thought to be the prophet in Deuteronomy 18:15. Some thought Jeremiah 11:19 pointed at that prophet as the fulfillment of Isaiah 53:7.<\/h3>\n

Peter was a Hebrew, a child of the Hebrew race. He was born in its midst, and had been nurtured upon its thinking. Every fiber of his personality was affected by its conceptions, and it was as a Hebrew that he said to the Man who styled Himself “the Son of Man,” “Thou are the Christ,” the Messiah. That is, Thou are the fulfiller of all the expectations of the Hebrew people, the One by whom our hopes are to be realized, the One by in whom the economy culminates, the One from whom there is to break the dawn of a new day and a new era …<\/span><\/h3>\n

Peter’s confession was a very definite one, and yet one that recognized his consciousness of the mystic element in this Man, beyond the things the age had seen. The age had caught the comprehensiveness of the prophetic note. The age had recognized more \u2014 the supernaturalness of this Teacher. Peter, recognizing all this, defined it, and went beyond the age, and said; “Thou are the Messiah;” more than John the forerunner, more than Elijah the foreteller, more than Jeremiah the watcher and the one who waited; Thou art the One toward whom they all looked. There is manifested in all Thy doing, and in all Thy teaching something that differentiates Thee from all other teachers and men. Son of Man, but Son of the living God, the Messiah \u2014 Morgan, pages 209-210<\/span><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

13\u00a0When Jesus came into the region of Caesarea Philippi, He asked His disciples, saying,\u00a0\u201cWho do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?\u201d 14\u00a0So they said, \u201cSome\u00a0say\u00a0John the Baptist, some Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.\u201d … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-matthew"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3118"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9282,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3118\/revisions\/9282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}