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15 He asked them, “But who do you say I am?”

16 Simon Peter answered, “You are the Messiah,[a] the Son of the living God!”

17 Then Jesus told him, “How blessed you are, Simon son of Jonah,[b] since flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, though my Father in heaven has.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 16:16 Or Christ
  2. Matthew 16:17 Or Simon son of John; Lit. Simon bar Jonah; cf. John 1:42