MATTHEW 16 : 20
Then he charged the disciples that they should tell no one that he is Jesus the Christ.
Then he charged the disciples that they should tell no one that he is Jesus the Christ.
He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?" Peter answered, "You are the Christ."
But he stayed quiet, and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked him, "Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?"
For there is born to you, this day, in the city of David, a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.
As the people were in expectation, and all men reasoned in their hearts concerning John, whether perhaps he was the Christ,
He first found his own brother, Simon, and said to him, "We have found the Messiah!" (which is, being interpreted, Christ{"Messiah" (Hebrew) and "Christ" (Greek) both mean "Anointed One".}).
for he powerfully refuted the Jews, publicly showing by the Scriptures that Jesus was the Christ.
how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
who his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.
And he is the atoning sacrifice{"atoning sacrifice" is from the Greek "hilasmos," an appeasing, propitiating, or the means of appeasement or propitiation-- the sacrifice that turns away God's wrath because of our sin.} for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.