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Matthew 16:15

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

But whom (who) say ye that I am? More emphatic in the Greek, υμεῖς δὲ τίνα με λέγετε εἶναι; But ye, who do ye say that I am? This was the important question to which the previous one led. Ye, who have shared my life and received my teaching, witnessed my miracles and have been endued by me with supernatural powers, ye know better than the people, whose crude opinions you have heard and recounted; so tell plainly what you believe of me: who you think and say that I am?

A momentous inquiry! upon which hung the foundation of the Christian Church. Their knowledge of the real nature of Jesus was now to be tested.

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