and they were being baptized by him in the Jordan River [as they] confessed their sins.

Everyone therefore who confesses me before men, him I will also confess before my Father who is in heaven.

And I also tell you, [although] you are Peter [i.e., a stone], it is on this rock [i.e., the truth you have just confessed] that I will build my church and [not even] the gates of the unseen place of departed spirits will win out over it [i.e., all efforts to stamp out the church by killing Christians will fail].