When Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, “Who do people say the Son of Man is?” They replied, “Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, Jeremiah or one of the prophets.” “But what about you ?” he asked. “Who do you say I am ?”
Mark 8 : 29 ESV And he asked them, “ But who do you say that I am ?” Peter answered him, “ You are the Christ .” This is the first time since the very first verse of this Gospel that the word Christ has been used.
‘” ‘Ehyeh is the first person form of hayah, “to be”, and owing to the peculiarities of Hebrew grammar means “I am “, “I was”, and “I will be”. “I am who I am ” – an evasion of Moses’s question; “I am who am ” or “I am he who is” – a statement of the nature of Israel’s God [‘Elohiym];
They all asked, “Are you then the Son of God?” He replied, ” You say that I am . It basically means that he is the son of God. Kindly note that many people were called the sons of God before Jesus . To answer your question, he told them yes I am , because he is the son of God just like the others who were before him.
The exact translation varies slightly depending on the version of the Bible, but it is generally translated into English as: “I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.”
The theme, ” Who You Say I Am “, is from John 8, which is, you will know, the truth and the truth will set you free. Jesus says, ‘who the Son sets free, is free indeed. When I introduced this song into our church, I read John 8, the Scripture this song is based on. It talks about how a slave has no place in the family.
What was Jesus ‘ point in the teaching ? In Matthew 5:21-24 Jesus taught that whether the sin be murder or anything of the sort; all sins are as bad as murder and are subject to judgment in the eyes of the lord. Being angry with someone or having malice no matter how big or how small is still a sin.
3. How would you personally answer Jesus ‘ question , “But who do you say that I am?” Describe your own beliefs about Jesus . When Jesus asked , “But who do you say that I am?”, He was with one of His disciples named Peter. When Peter answered His question , he replied, “You are the Messiah.”.
The Hebrew word “Mashiach,” meaning Messiah , means “the one anointed with oil.” The custom of anointing with oil is a ritual act designed to elevate those designated for priestly, royal or sometimes even prophetic roles (such as the prophet Elisha).
Yahweh is the name of the God of the Bible. He is the God to whom Jesus prayed. Similarly, Jesus is an Anglicised version of a Greek version of the name Ιησούς, which, itself, in Hebrew is יהושע, commonly Joshua in English. So Jesus and Joshua are effectively the same name.
In the Hebrew Bible (Exodus 3:14), Yahweh , the personal name of God, is revealed directly to Moses .
The Bride of Christ or the bride, the Lamb’s wife is a term used in reference to a group of related verses in the Bible, in the Gospels, Revelation, the Epistles and related verses in the Old Testament. Sometimes, the bride is implied by calling Jesus a bridegroom.
Quod scripsi, scripsi (Latin for ” What I have written, I have written”) is a Latin phrase. It was most famously used by Pontius Pilate in the Bible in response to the Jewish priests who objected to his writing on the sign (titulus) that was hung above Jesus at his Crucifixion.
In Matthew 27:43, while Jesus hangs on the cross, the Jewish leaders mock him to ask God help, “for he said, I am the Son of God “, referring to the claim of Jesus to be the Son of God .
According to the New Testament, “God raised him from the dead “, he ascended to heaven, to the “right hand of God”, and will return again to fulfill the rest of Messianic prophecy such as the resurrection of the dead , the Last Judgment and establishment of the Kingdom of God.