Welcome to part two at Dr. Carrie Mulestein, Matthew 15 through 17 and Mark 7 through 9.

All right, now the next verses get us into one of the more significant stories in the Gospels, I think.

This is a really profound moment.

We've got a couple of those.

Two of the most profound things in the Gospels happen in today's reading.

And of course, in the readings we get to when we get to what we call the Passion narrative

or the Guesemite and Crucifixion narratives.

But Hank, do you want to read for us a little bit?

Let's just start in Matthew 16 and we can do verses.

Let's just start with 13 through 14.

When Jesus came into the coast of Cesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples saying,

whom do men say that I, the son of man, am?

And they said, huh, some say that thou art John the Baptist, some Elias, and others Jeremiah, or one of the prophets.

Let's get our setting for this because it impacts a little bit of what's going on here.

We've talked already about a couple of the different kingdoms.

So you've got the Romans divided this up after Herod, the great dies.

They divide up his kingdom.

And one of them is ruled by one of his crazy sons.

And so then I guess taken away from him and it's ruled by Romans themselves.

And that's Judea, right?

And at this point, Pilate is in Judea.

Jerusalem. That's where it is.

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