¹⁶ Simon Peter answered and said, ^(A)“You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”

¹⁷ Jesus answered and said to him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah, ^(B)for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but ^(C)My Father who is in heaven. ¹⁸ And I also say to you that ^(D)you are Peter, and ^(E)on this rock I will build My church, and ^(F)the gates of Hades shall not ^[a]prevail against it.

⁸ Philip said to Him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is sufficient for us.”

⁹ Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and yet you have not known Me, Philip? ^(A)He who has seen Me has seen the Father; so how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? ¹⁰ Do you not believe that ^(B)I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? The words that I speak to you ^(C)I do not speak on My own authority; but the Father who dwells in Me does the works.