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Peter's confession

The hinge of the Synoptic Gospels: the question of who Jesus is, answered aloud, and immediately followed by the first prediction of the passion.

The accounts

Luke 9:18-21Luke 9:20Mark 8:27Mark 8:27-30Mark 8:29Mark 8:30Matthew 16:13Matthew 16:16Matthew 16:17

What the accounts share

  1. Matthew 16:13 and Mark 8:27

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  2. Matthew 16:17 and Mark 8:30

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  3. Matthew 16:16 and Mark 8:29

    Mark tells this same moment when Peter declares Jesus to be the Christ at Caesarea Philippi.

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  4. Matthew 16:17 and Luke 9:20

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  5. Matthew 16:16 and Luke 9:20

    Luke records this same confession of Peter, naming Jesus as the Christ of God.

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  6. Mark 8:27-30 and Luke 9:18-21

    Jesus asks who men say that he is, then who the disciples say, and Peter answers. Both follow it with a charge to tell no one.

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