Welcome to Form Now. I'm Tim Gray, president of the Augustine Institute.

And joining me is Dr. Michael Barber, and we're going to continue our ongoing Bible study on the Gospel of Matthew.

The last time we left off finishing up chapter 16, verse 20, and we'll pick up with verse 21 today.

So if you have your Bibles, grab your Bibles. We're using the ESV Catholic Edition, the English Standard Version Catholic

Edition, which we think is just a great, beautiful translation, very accurate to the Greek

and Hebrew and very readable. And so we invite you to get your Bibles and join us. And I want to

begin by thinking everybody who supports us on our mission circle, because your support allows

us to have these Bible studies and make them available.

So we're so grateful for all of you who are mission partners with us in our monthly giving society

mission circle. Well, Michael, we left off last time we talked about a very important scene in the

gospels and in the life of Christ and the life of Peter, where Jesus takes the disciples up to

Caesarea, flip by. And then he asked them, who do people say the life of Peter, where Jesus takes the disciples up to Caesarea, flip-by.

And then he asked them, who do people say the Son of Man is?

You get the first gallop poll on Jesus, and the gallop poll.

Pollsters were wrong then, and they're just like today.

And of course, the early poll on who Jesus was was all wrong.

And then Jesus turns to

his disciples say but who do you say that I am and then Peter pipes up and says you are the Messiah

the Christ the son of the living God and that is an incredible profession by Peter and of course

the idea that he's the son of the living God I think has everything to do with what's going on there in Caesarea Philippi, because the most dominant building at that time is a temple

built by Herod the Great in honor of Caesar Augustus.

And in that temple would be a statue of Augustus, as well as the goddess of Rome.

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