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.

Greeting

1 Paul, a bondservant of Jesus Christ, ^(A)called to be an apostle, ^(B)separated to the gospel of God ^2 (C)which He promised before ^(D)through His prophets in the Holy Scriptures, ³ concerning His Son Jesus Christ our Lord, who ^[a]was ^(E)born of the seed of David according to the flesh, ⁴ and ^(F)declared to be the Son of God with power according ^(G)to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead.