| Matthew 16:15 Parallel Translations |  |
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| NASB: | He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?" (NASB ©1995) |
| GWT: | He asked them, "But who do you say I am?"(GOD'S WORD®) |
| KJV: | He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? |
| ASV: | He saith unto them, But who say ye that I am? |
| BBE: | He says to them, But who do you say that I am? |
| DBY: | He says to them, But ye, who do ye say that I am? |
| ERV: | He saith unto them, But who say ye that I am? |
| WEY: | "But you, who do you say that I am?" He asked again. |
| WBS: | He saith to them, But who say ye that I am? |
| WEB: | He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?" |
| YLT: | He saith to them, 'And ye -- who do ye say me to be?' |
| Matthew 16:15 Cross References |
| XREF: | Matthew 16:14 And they said, "Some say John the Baptist; and others, Elijah; but still others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets."
Matthew 16:16 Simon Peter answered, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God." (NASB ©1995) |
| Commentaries and Concordances |
| PNT: | 16:15 But whom say ye that I am? This is the great and smaller catechism, the one great and essential question. Christ is the one object of the Christian's faith. We say we believe in him; but in whom do we believe? The hour had not come for the settlement of what should constitute the Christian confession. |
| MHC: | 16:13-20 Peter, for himself and his brethren, said that they were assured of our Lord's being the promised Messiah, the Son of the living God. This showed that they believed Jesus to be more than man. Our Lord declared Peter to be blessed, as the teaching of God made him differ from his unbelieving countrymen. Christ added that he had named him Peter, in allusion to his stability or firmness in professing the truth. The word translated rock, is not the same word as Peter, but is of a similar meaning. Nothing can be more wrong than to suppose that Christ meant the person of Peter was the rock. Without doubt Christ himself is the Rock, the tried foundation of the church; and woe to him that attempts to lay any other! Peter's confession is this rock as to doctrine. If Jesus be not the Christ, those that own him are not of the church, but deceivers and deceived. Our Lord next declared the authority with which Peter would be invested. He spoke in the name of his brethren, and this related to them as well as to him. They had no certain knowledge of the characters of men, and were liable to mistakes and sins in their own conduct; but they were kept from error in stating the way of acceptance and salvation, the rule of obedience, the believer's character and experience, and the final doom of unbelievers and hypocrites. In such matters their decision was right, and it was confirmed in heaven. But all pretensions of any man, either to absolve or retain men's sins, are blasphemous and absurd. None can forgive sins but God only. And this binding and loosing, in the common language of the Jews, signified to forbid and to allow, or to teach what is lawful or unlawful. |
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