Luke 9:20
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“But what about you?” he asked. “Who do you say I am?”Peter answered, “God’s Messiah.”
Read Luke 9:20 Using Other Translations
He said unto them,But whom say ye that I am? Peter answering said, The Christ of God.
Then he said to them, "But who do you say that I am?" And Peter answered, "The Christ of God."
Then he asked them, “But who do you say I am?” Peter replied, “You are the Messiah sent from God!”
What does Luke 9:20 mean?
John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
Luke 9:20
He said unto them, but whom say ye that I am?
&c.] Which was the main thing he had in view in this private
conference; and in order to introduce which, he puts the former
question:
Peter answering:
in the name of the rest of the disciples, they assenting to it:
said, the Christ of God;
The Persic version reads, "Christ God"; the Messiah, who is the
Son of God, and God over all, blessed for ever. The Cambridge
copy of Beza's reads, "the Christ, the Son of God". (See Gill
on Luke
2:26).
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