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 9:18–20As he was praying alone, the disciples were with him, and he asked them, “Who do the multitudes say that I am?”
• Mark 8:27–29Jesus went out, with his disciples, into the villages of Caesarea Philippi. On the way he asked his disciples, “Who do men say that I am?”
• Dan 7:13I saw in the night visions, and behold, there came with the clouds of the sky one like a son of man, and he came even to the ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.
• Matt 9:6But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins...” (then he said to the paralytic), “Get up, and take up your mat, and go to your house.”
• John 5:27He also gave him authority to execute judgment, because he is a son of man.
• Heb 2:14–18Since then the children have shared in flesh and blood, he also himself in the same way partook of the same, that through death he might bring to nothing him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,
• Matt 13:37He answered them, “He 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 said to him, “The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.”
• Matt 13:41The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will gather out of his Kingdom all things that cause stumbling, and those who do iniquity,
• Acts 7:56and said, “Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!”
• John 12:34The multitude answered him, “We have heard out of the law that the Christ remains forever. How do you say, ‘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, it will be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him, neither in this age, nor in that which is to come.
• Mark 8:38For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man also will be ashamed of him, when he comes in his Father’s glory, with the holy angels.”
• Matt 25:31“But when the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory.
• Acts 10:38even Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.
• Mark 10:45For the Son of Man also came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
• Matt 15:21Jesus went out from there, and withdrew into the region of Tyre and Sidon.
• Matt 12:40For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
• John 1:51He said to him, “Most certainly, I tell you, hereafter you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.”
• John 3:14As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up,

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