Now as people's expectations were roused and as everybody thought to himself about John, "Can he be the Christ,"

From many people daemons were also driven out, clamouring aloud, "You are God's son!" But he checked them and refused to let them say anything, as they knew he was the Christ.

He said to them, "And who do you say I am?" Peter replied, "The Christ of God."

But he said to them, "How can people say that the Christ is David's son?

"Tell us if you are the Christ." He said to them, "You will not believe me if I tell you,

The people stood and looked on, and even the rulers sneered at him, saying, "He saved others, let him save himself, if he is the Christ of God, the Chosen One!"

One of the criminals who had been hung also abused him, saying, "Are you not the Christ? Save yourself and us as well."

Had not the Christ to suffer thus and so enter his glory?"

"Thus," he said, "it is written that the Christ has to suffer and rise from the dead on the third day,