¹⁷Jesus replied, “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for this was not revealed to you by flesh and blood,^c but by my Father in heaven.^d ¹⁸And I tell you that you are Peter,^b^e and on this rock I will build my church,^f and the gates of Hades^c will not overcome it. ¹⁹I will give you the keys^g of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be^d bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be^e loosed in heaven.”^h ²⁰Then he ordered his disciples not to tell anyoneⁱ that he was the Messiah.

Jesus Predicts His Death

16:21–28pp—Mk 8:31–9:1; Lk 9:22–27

²¹From that time on Jesus began to explain to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem^j and suffer many things^k at the hands of the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law,^l and that he must be killed^m and on the third dayⁿ be raised to life.^o

²²Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. “Never, Lord!” he said. “This shall never happen to you!”

²³Jesus turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan!^p You are a stumbling block to me; you do not have in mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns.”

²⁴Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.^q ²⁵For whoever wants to save their life^f will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it.^r ²⁶What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul? ²⁷For the Son of Man^s is going to come^t in his Father’s glory with his angels, and then he will reward each person according to what they have done.^u

²⁸“Truly I tell you, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom.”

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Matthew 16:16: Simon Peter replied, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”

Footnotes

bThe Greek word for Peter means rock.
cThat is, the realm of the dead
dOr will have been
eOr will have been
fThe Greek word means either life or soul; also in verse 26.

Cross references

zSee Mt 3:1
a Mk 6:15; Jn 1:21
bSee Mt 4:3; Ps 42:2; Jer 10:10; Ac 14:15; 2 Co 6:16; 1 Th 1:9; 1 Ti 3:15; Heb 10:31; 12:22
c 1 Co 15:50; Eph 6:12; Heb 2:14
dSee Mt 13:11
e Jn 1:42
fSee Eph 2:20
g Isa 22:22; Rev 3:7
h Mt 18:18; Jn 20:23
iSee Mk 8:30
jSee Lk 9:51
k Ps 22:6; Isa 53:3; Mt 26:67, 68; Mk 10:34; Lk 17:25; Jn 18:22, 23; 19:3
l Mt 27:1, 2
m Ac 2:23; 3:13
n Hos 6:2; Mt 12:40; Lk 24:21, 46; Jn 2:19; 1 Co 15:3, 4
o Mt 17:22, 23; 27:63; Mk 9:31; Lk 9:22; 18:31–33; 24:6, 7
pSee Mt 4:10
q Mt 10:38; Lk 14:27
rSee Jn 12:25
sSee Mt 8:20
tSee Lk 17:30; Jn 14:3; Ac 1:11; See 1 Co 1:7; See 1 Th 2:19; 4:16; See Rev 1:7; 22:7, 12, 20
u 2 Ch 6:23; Job 34:11; Ps 62:12; Jer 17:10; Eze 18:20; 1 Co 3:12–15; 2 Co 5:10; Rev 22:12