Be Still And Know

Matthew 16.15-16 NLT Then Jesus asked them, “But who do you say I am?” Simon Peter answered, “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.” Caesarea Philippi is located at the base of Mount Hermon in Northern Israel and, for centuries, had been associated with the worship of various gods. At first it had been a centre for the worship of Baal, but in the time of Jesus it was associated with the worship of the Greek fertility gods and of Caesar. It was, therefore, an absolutely natural place for Jesus to ask questions about his own identity. He enquired of the disciples who people were saying that he was and he got a wide range of responses. Some thought that he was a revived form of John the Baptist. Others thought that he was Elijah, believing that this great prophet of the Old Testament would return before the coming of the Messiah. And yet others thought that Jesus was Jeremiah or one of the other great prophets. Basically, there were lots of different theories and no general agreement about who Jesus wa