Luke 9:18-22

It is all about us repenting of our sins, humbling ourself and accepting God’s gift to us in Jesus...his birth, His death and His resurrection from the dead. 

Even while we were still sinners without hope  God gave His only begotten Son to die in our place. His life given up for us that we may live in His righteousness and through His sacrifice be reconciled with our Creator. 

No one will ever love you more than Him. 💜

Jesus asks His disciples what they have heard people saying. Then He asks for their opinion, and Peter responds correctly: Jesus is Yahweh’s Messiah. As in Matthew and Mark, Peter’s confession is followed immediately by Jesus’ first prediction of His death and resurrection. Faithlife Bible.

The emphasis here is on the messianic role of Jesus. He is the Promised One who was ushering in a new era. However, Jesus would soon reveal to the disciples that His messiahship would have elements of suffering that the disciples did not expect.

Jesus knew that the messianic role that the people and the disciples expected was much different from His actual role as the Messiah. The element of suffering that the Messiah would endure was not a part of popular expectation. Thus Jesus’ messiahship could not be openly proclaimed before the true nature of the Messiah was revealed. NKJ Bible.

Luke 9:18–22 (NKJV): And it happened, as He was alone praying, that His disciples joined Him, and He asked them, saying, “Who do the crowds say that I am?”So they answered and said, “John the Baptist, but some say Elijah; and others say that one of the old prophets has risen again.”He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?”Peter answered and said, “The Christ of God.”And He strictly warned and commanded them to tell this to no one, saying, “The Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised the third day.”

Mt 16:13

When Jesus came into the region of Caesarea Philippi, He asked His disciples, saying, “Who do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?”

Mt 16:14

So they said, “Some say John the Baptist, some Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.”

Mt 16:15

He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?”