Jesus, these comparisons are inadequate, and so Jesus prodded his disciples into confessing their take on his identity. Quick-tongued Peter, who most often could not keep an utterance down even when it threatened to expose his folly, answered well for once: “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God!” (v. 16). Near Caesarea Philippi Peter confessed to Jesus, “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God!” (Matt 1:16). Running throughout the Gospels there is a tension between disclosure and