Luke 9:20

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Luke 9:20

He said unto them, But whom say ye that I am? Peter answering said, The Christ of God.

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"If you are the Christ," they said, "tell us so." "If I tell you," replied Jesus, "you will not believe me;

And to this Simon Peter answered: "You are the Christ, the Son of the Living God."

But Jesus remained silent. On this the High Priest said to him: "I adjure you, by the Living God, to tell us whether you are the Christ, the Son of God."

"But you," he asked, "who do you say that I am?" To this Peter replied: "You are the Christ."

But Jesus remained silent, and made no answer. A second time the High Priest questioned him. "Are you," he asked, "the Christ, the Son of the Blessed One?"

He first found his own brother Simon, and said to him: "We have found the Messiah!" (a word which means 'Christ,' or 'Consecrated'.)

"Come and see someone who has told me everything that I have done. Can he be the Christ?"

And we have learned to believe and to know that you are the Holy One of God."

"This is certainly 'the Prophet'!"; others said: "This is the Christ!"; but some asked: "What! does the Christ come from Galilee?

"Yes Master," she answered; "I have learned to believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, 'who was to come' into the world."

But these have been recorded that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God--and that, through your belief in his Name, you may have Life.

OMITTED TEXT

Saul's influence, however, kept steadily increasing, and he confounded the Jews who lived in Damascus by the proofs that he gave that Jesus was the Christ.

He laid before them and explained that the Christ must undergo suffering and rise from the dead; and "It is this man," he declared, "who is the Christ--this Jesus about whom I am telling you."

Every one who believes that Jesus is the Christ has received the new Life from God; and every one who loves him who gave that Life loves him who has received it.