Matthew 16:13

At Caesarea Philippi, Jesus asks his disciples who people say the Son of Man is. It matters because it opens the central question of Jesus' identity.

Cross-references · 21

• Luke 9:18–20One day as Jesus was praying in private and the disciples were with Him, He questioned them: “Who do the crowds say I am?”
• Mark 8:27–29Then Jesus and His disciples went on to the villages around Caesarea Philippi. On the way, He questioned His disciples: “Who do people say I am?”
• Dan 7:13In my vision in the night I continued to watch, and I saw One like the Son of Man coming with the clouds of heaven. He approached the Ancient of Days and was led into His presence.
• Matt 9:6But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins...” Then He said to the paralytic, “Get up, pick up your mat, and go home.”
• John 5:27And He has given Him authority to execute judgment, because He is the Son of Man.
• Heb 2:14–18Now since the children have flesh and blood, He too shared in their humanity, so that by His death He might destroy him who holds the power of death, that is, the devil,
• Matt 13:37He replied, “The One who sows the good seed is the Son of Man.
• Matt 12:8For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.”
• Matt 8:20Jesus replied, “Foxes have dens and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay His head.”
• Matt 13:41The Son of Man will send out His angels, and they will weed out of His kingdom every cause of sin and all who practice lawlessness.
• Acts 7:56“Look,” he said, “I see heaven open and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God.”
• John 12:34The crowd replied, “We have heard from the Law that the Christ will remain forever. So how can you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?”
• Matt 12:32Whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the one to come.
• Mark 8:38If anyone is ashamed of Me and My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will also be ashamed of him when He comes in His Father’s glory with the holy angels.”
• Matt 25:31When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the angels with Him, He will sit on His glorious throne.
• Acts 10:38how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, and how Jesus went around doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, because God was with Him.
• Mark 10:45For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many.”
• Matt 15:21Leaving that place, Jesus withdrew to the district of Tyre and Sidon.
• Matt 12:40For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
• John 1:51Then He declared, “Truly, truly, I tell you, you will all see heaven open and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.”
• John 3:14Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up,

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