Peter answered “You are the Christ.”

Mark 8:27-30 // Jesus directly asks His disciples, "Who do you say I am" and with the use of a carefully placed "the", peter's eyes are opened. Rian Lange unpacks the turning point for Peter and for us in our spiritual blindness; when we come to understand Jesus' identity as the Christ.

Mark 8

27Then 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?”

28They replied, “Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, one of the prophets.”

29“But what about you?” Jesus asked. “Who do you say I am?”

Peter answered, “You are the Christ.”

30And Jesus warned them not to tell anyone about Him.

Mark 8

31Then He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and that He must be killed and after three days rise again. 32He spoke this message quite frankly, and Peter took Him aside and began to rebuke Him.

33But Jesus, turning and looking at His disciples, rebuked Peter and said, “Get behind Me, Satan! For you do not have in mind the things of God, but the things of men.”