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      • In Matthew’s Gospel (16:13-17), Peter declares Jesus as the Messiah, Simon Peter answered, “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God. Through this statement Jesus is confirmed as the Messiah. In other words, he is confirmed as the chosen one who was sent to do God’s will.
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  2. Dec 29, 2020 · Jesus as God’s Son in the New Testament. As James L. Mays correctly observed, Psalm 2 “is the only text in the Old Testament that speaks of God’s king, messiah, and son in one place, the titles so important for the presentation of Jesus in the Gospels.”

  3. Apr 23, 2021 · The Jew's question clearly indicates that the Messiah and Son of God are interchangeable titles to them. They [implicitly] taught & knew that the Messiah was divine and understood the meaning of claims like [the] Son of God, coming in the clouds in the divine power and glory.

  4. 16 Simon Peter answered, “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.” 17 Jesus replied, “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for this was not revealed to you by flesh and blood, but by my Father in heaven.

  5. The word Christ means "Messiah" or "Anointed One." Peter doesn't stop with recognizing that Jesus is the fulfilment of God's promises for a Savior, he also declares that Jesus is the Son of God, acknowledging that Jesus is, in fact, divine. Peter and the other disciples still lack complete understanding of why Jesus has come to earth.

  6. Herein Peter acknowledges Jesus to be the true Messiah, commissioned and sent by God to reveal his will to man, and accomplishing all that the prophets had foretold concerning him; no mere man, not even the most exalted of men (which common opinion held Messiah to be) but the Son of God, of the substance of the Father, begotten from everlasting ...

  7. but these have been written so that you may believe [with a deep, abiding trust] that Jesus is the Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed), the Son of God; and that by believing [and trusting in and relying on Him] you may have life in His name.

  8. Dec 10, 2018 · Consider the wonderful confession of Peter in Matthew 16 and its parallels. Jesus asks, “Who do people say that I am?” (see Matthew 16:13). Peter responds, “You are the Christ [you are the Messiah], the Son of the living God” (Matthew 16:16). How is Messiah understood in that context? As the Son of the living God.

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