MATTHEW 16:15 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am?”
He said to them: but who do you say that I am? The shift from the crowd's perception (who do people say) to the disciples' confession (who do you say) is the most important question Jesus asks his disciples in all the Gospels. The you is emphatic and plural — the question is addressed to the whole disciple group, but Peter will answer for them.
Church Fathers on Matthew 16:15
As soon as the Lord had taken His disciples out of the teaching of the Pharisees, He then suitably proceeds to lay deep the foundations of the Gospel doctrine; and to give this the greater solemnity, it is introduced by the name of the place, 'When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi.'
He adds 'of Philip,' to distinguish it from the other Caesarea, of Strato. And He asks this question in the former place, leading His disciples far out of the way of the Jews, that being set free from all fear, they might say freely what was in their mind.
This Philip was the brother of Herod, the tetrarch of Ituraea, and the region of Trachonitis, who gave to the city, which is now called Panaeas, the name of Caesarea in honour of Tiberias Caesar.
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