The Lord Of The 's Church

“Simon Peter asked him, ‘Lord, where are you going?’ Jesus replied, ‘Where I am going, you cannot follow now, but you will follow later. Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me. In my Father’s house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may

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“Who do people say that I am?” (Mark 8:27) is one of the most fundamental questions that Jesus asked his disciples. It is a question, from my personal viewpoint, that has a simple answer. Jesus is Lord! Needless to say, there is more to the identity of Jesus, but it is my belief that Jesus is the Messiah, the second person of the Holy Trinity. He is the promised Savior foretold in the Old Testament by the prophets. There is an endless list that gives Jesus titles such as Ruler and King, Master and Teacher, Savior and Christ, but in Acts 2:36 Luke writes, “God has made him both Lord and Messiah, this Jesus whom you crucified.” Jesus is the one who went to the Cross to bring humankind forgiveness, redemption, and salvation.

These passages shed light on the way people perceived Jesus during his time. Some said that he was John the Baptist, Elijah, and Jeremiah or one of the prophets. However, the most important part of the passage is Peter’s identification of the Jesus as Christ. Jesus asks his disciples, “Who do you say I am?’ Peter answers by proclaiming Jesus to be the longed-for-Messiah of Israel: “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” The response of Peter is a great profession of faith. Peter is able to make this affirmation about Jesus’ identity because God has enabled him to recognize Jesus as “the Messiah, the Son of the living God.” Jesus praises Peter saying, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jona! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven. And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the powers of death shall prevail against it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven…” (Mt: 16:17-19). Yet in the very next passage of the Gospel, Peter wavers and Jesus calls him “Satan”. Why? Because Jesus had gone on to reveal that he was to be a suffering messiah, put to death for the salvation of his people. And Peter was not prepared for this. Peter loved Jesus and firmly believed him to be the Christ, but a Christ conformed to his own ideas, expectations and attachments. How strange – and

By calling Jesus ‘the Word,’ John calls him the embodiment of all God’s revelation in the Scriptures and thus declares that only those who accept Jesus honor the law, fully (1:17). Jewish

He likes to ask questions to his disciples about what people think, and what they think. Jesus asks his disciples “Who do the people say I am?” “Some say John the Baptist, others say Elijah, and still others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.” Then Jesus says “Who do you say I am.” Peter says “You are the Christ, the son of the living God.”(O’Reilly163). I think Jesus is trying to see what the people think, compared to what his disciples think. His disciples know that he is the son of the living God. They know what his purpose on earth is, while Jesus followers know he is a promoter of the word, but don’t yet know he is God’s

MEMORY VERSE: "Jesus saith unto them, Come and dine. And none of the disciples durst ask him, Who art thou? knowing that it was the Lord" (St. John 21:12).

The promised one would be appointed by God to a special position. It is not till later on that we discover more about the Messiah’s important place in the fulfillment of God’s promise. In Matthew 16:16 Peter said to Jesus, “You are Christ.” How would the disciples be sure if Jesus was really the promised Messiah? The prophets of God who lived before Jesus foretold many details about the Messiah. These details are what helped the disciples to identify Him. In John 14:9-10 Jesus said, “How can you say, ‘Show us the Father?’ Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you I do not speak on my own authority. Rather, it is

Who is Jesus? In reading Matthew 16:13-16, Jesus asked his disciples, “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?” When the disciple answered to Jesus’ question, they responded with what they knew or heard in what the people had said about Jesus, because the people truly did not know. The disciples answered Jesus question, “Some says John the Baptist, others say Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.” Jesus said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” Jesus decided to question his disciples’ beliefs. As long as they were with Him doing many signs and miracles; nevertheless, only one disciple replied. Simon Peter replied to Jesus and said that He was the Christ, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” Why did Peter seem

In the Gospel of Mark 8: 27-35 Jesus, along with his disciples, is making his way to Caesarea Philippi. While on the way, Jesus asked the disciples who they thought he was. The disciples replied John the Baptist, Elijah, or one of the prophets. Jesus then asked a second time, “Who do you think that I am” and this time Peter replied saying that he was Christ. Jesus then explained that he must suffer, be rejected, die, and then rise on the third day. Peter brought Jesus aside after hearing what he had said, and began to criticize him. Jesus told Peter, in front of the disciples, to stand behind him calling him Satan and saying that he thinks like a human does and not as a God. After gathering

Six days after this confession by Peter in Caesarea, Jesus takes three of his disciples to the top of a mountain. These disciples, John, Peter, and James, had all just claimed that Jesus was the Son of God and Jesus was going to prove this to them. Jesus took these three disciples to the top of this tall mountain where Moses and Elijah had appeared magically next to Jesus. Then a voice from the sky claimed that Jesus was the true Son of God and was to be treated as such. They should treat Jesus differently than how the people treated Moses and Elijah.

This passage starts by Jesus asking the disciples who the Messiah is. Some of the disciples say it is John the Baptist or Elijah or Jeremiah or one of the prophets. Jesus then asked the disciples who they think he is. Peter replied to Jesus saying that he was the Messiah and the Son of the living God.

In previous chapters, the real identity of Jesus is unknown- the crowds wonder if he is the Son of David (Matt 12:23), the disciples previously said that he was “the Son of God (Matt 8:29, 14:33) and Jesus himself identifies himself as “the Son of Man” (Matt 10: 23; 2:8; 12:40) and even likening himself to a Prophet (Matt 13:57).

Saint Peter the Apostle, original name Simeon, or Simon (died AD 64, Rome), disciple of Jesus Christ, recognized in the early church as the leader of the disciples and the Roman Catholic Church as the first of its unbroken succession of popes. Peter a fisherman, was called to be a disciple of Jesus at the beginning of his ministry. He received from Jesus an Aramaic appellation Cephas which means “Rock.” This was translated into Greek as Petros (from the Greek Petra, “rock”) and became a Latin Petrus and the English Peter. Jesus told Peter he was the Rock upon whom the Christian Church would be built. Throughout the public life of Jesus, Peter is represented in the Gospel as the Spokesman and principal member of Jesus’ followers. He is the first named in the entire list given of these followers and was present with a privilege at few special occasions, example, the daughter of Jairus brought back to life by Jesus. He was also the first to see Jesus after his resurrection from the dead.

13 When Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, "Who do people say the Son of Man is?" 14 They replied, "Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, Jeremiah or one of the prophets." 15 "But what about you?" he asked. "Who do you say I am?" 16 Simon Peter answered, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God." 17 Jesus replied, "Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for this was not revealed to you by man, but by my Father in heaven. 18 And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it.