15He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?”e
16Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”f
17Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.g
Matthew 16 marks a decisive pivot in the Gospel. Jesus rebukes the Pharisees and Sadducees for demanding a sign, warns his disciples against their "leaven" (teaching), and then leads them to Caesarea Philippi for the watershed confession of Peter: "You are the Christ, the Son of
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