The Confession of Peter

Matt. xvi. 16.

Apokritheis de Simon Petros eipen ;

And Simon Peter, answering, said,

Su ei ho Christos, ho huios tou theou tou zontos

Thou art the Christ [the Messiah], the Son of the living God.

Note.—This is the fundamental Christian Confession, and the rock on which the Church is built. See Schaff's Annotations to Lange on Matthew, pp. 293-295.

John vi. 68.

Kurie, pros tina apeleusometha? remata zoes aioniou echeis; kai hemeis pepisteukamen, kai egnokamen hoti

Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou hast words of life eternal, and we have believed and known that

Su ei ho hagios tou theou

Thou art the Holy One of God.

Note.—This is the true reading, instead of the received text: 'Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God', ( su ei ho Christos, ho huios tou theou tou zontos ) which is conformed to Matt. xvi. 16. It is equivalent to Thou art the Messiah, and coincides with the testimony of the demoniacs (Mark i. 26), who with ghost-like intuition perceived the supernatural character of Jesus. This Confession of Peter belongs to an earlier period than the one recorded by Matthew. See Lange, Com. on John, pp. 234 sq. (Am. ed.).