Church: Who Needs It? In Matthew’s gospel, the first book in the New Testament chapter 16 beginning in verse 13, “When Jesus came into the region of Caesarea Philippi he asked his disciples saying, ‘Who do men say that I the Son of Man am?’ And so they said, ‘Some say John the Baptist. Some Elijah. Others, Jeremiah or one of the prophets.’ He said to them, ‘But who do you say that I am?’ Simon Peter and said, ‘You are the Christ, the Son of the
Matthew 16:13–18