This week on Things Unseen we've been thinking about the question, who is Jesus, really?

Yesterday we turned to Simon Peter's answer to Jesus' question to him, who do you see

I am when he replied you are the Christ, the Son of the Living God?

At the beginning of his own gospel, John tells us that when Peter's brother Andrew first

brought him to meet Jesus, he said to him, Peter, we have found the Messiah, we have found

the Christ.

So although we often think of Peter's confession as a kind of sudden moment of revelation,

it looks much more likely that it was the flowering of a seed that had been planted in

his mind by his brother.

But now for the very first time, he was seeing it out loud, and he was seeing it to Jesus.

That was a big moment, but what did he mean?

Well Christ or its Hebrew equivalent Messiah means a 9-1, and we know that certain individuals

and objects in the Old Testament were anointed with Isle to set them apart for God's use.

So for example Exodus 28 tells us how Aaron and his sons were anointed with Isle.

Actually, the ritual was so sacred that a unique recipe was used to make the Isle, never

used for any other person or for any other purpose, actually under penalty of excommunication.

Now all these people who were anointed were intended to point beyond themselves to the

one who was still to come.

The one who would accomplish what they could only do in a symbolic way.

The one whose heel would shed blood as he crushed the head of the serpent.

The one who would be the final prophet like Moses but far greater.

The priest who would come who would be after the order of Melchizedek rather than the

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