Mark 8:29
He asked them, “What about you? Who do you say that I am?” Peter replied to him, “ We believe that you are the Messiah!”
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In Context
30Then Jesus warned them strongly that they should not tell anyone yet that he was the Messiah.
Cross References
Mark 4:11He said to them, “People have not understood before the new message about how God wants to rule people’s lives. It is to you that this is being made known {that I am making this known}. But I tell about this only ◄in parables/figuratively► to those who have not yet invited God to rule their lives.
John 1:41After Andrew left Jesus, the first thing he did was to find his own older brother Simon and say to him, “We have found the Messiah!”
John 6:69We have come to believe for certain that you are the holy one who has come from God!”
Acts 8:36While they were traveling along the road, they came to a place where there was a pond of water near the road. Then the official said to Philip, “Look, there is a pond of water! ◄I would like you to baptize me, because I do not know of anything that would prevent me from being baptized {prevent you from baptizing me.}/Do you know of anything that would prevent me from being baptized {prevent you from baptizing me}?► [RHQ]”
1 Peter 2:7Therefore, God will honor you who believe in Jesus. But those who refuse to believe in him are like the builders that this Scripture talks about: The stone that the builders rejected has become ◄the cornerstone/the most important stone in the foundation of the building►.
1 John 5:1All those who believe that Jesus is the ◄Messiah/person God sent to rescue us► are ones who have truly become children of God. And everyone who loves a man who is someone’s father will be expected to love that man’s children as well. Similarly, those who love God, who has caused them to become his children [MET], should love their fellow believers, whom God has also caused to become his children.
Matthew Henry on Mark 8:28-38
Peter's Enlightened Testimony; Peter Rebuked. 27 And Jesus went out, and his disciples, into the towns of Cæsarea Philippi: and by the way he asked his disciples, saying unto them, Whom do men say that I am? 28 And they answered, John the Baptist: but some say, Elias; and others, One of the prophets. 29 And he saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? And Peter answereth and saith unto him, Thou art the Christ. 30 And he charged them that they should tell no man of him. 31 And he began to teach them, that the… Read the whole commentary →