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JANUARY 25
17 Jesus answered and said to him, “Blessed
are you, Simon Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood
has not revealed this to you, but My Father
4:21–23 heart. The “heart” commonly refers who is in heaven. And I also say to you that
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to the mind as the center of thinking and rea- you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My
son (3:3; 6:21; 7:3), but also includes the emo- church, and the gates of Hades shall not pre-
tions (15:15,30), the will (11:20; 14:14), and vail against it. And I will give you the keys of
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thus, the whole inner being (3:5). The heart is the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you
the depository of all wisdom and the source of bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and
whatever affects speech (v. 24), sight (v. 25), whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in
and conduct (vv. 26,27).
heaven.”
20 Then He commanded His disciples that
Matthew 16:1–28 they should tell no one that He was Jesus the
Christ.
Then the Pharisees and Sadducees 21 From that time Jesus began to show to His
16 came, and testing Him asked that He disciples that He must go to Jerusalem, and
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would show them a sign from heaven. He suffer many things from the elders and chief
answered and said to them, “When it is
evening you say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the priests and scribes, and be killed, and be
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sky is red’; and in the morning, ‘It will be foul raised the third day.
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weather today, for the sky is red and threaten- Then Peter took Him aside and began to
ing.’ Hypocrites! You know how to discern the rebuke Him, saying, “Far be it from You, Lord;
face of the sky, but you cannot discern the this shall not happen to You!”
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signs of the times. A wicked and adulterous But He turned and said to Peter, “Get
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generation seeks after a sign, and no sign shall behind Me, Satan! You are an offense to Me,
be given to it except the sign of the prophet for you are not mindful of the things of God,
Jonah.” And He left them and departed. but the things of men.”
Now when His disciples had come to the
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other side, they had forgotten to take bread.
6 Then Jesus said to them, “Take heed and
beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the
Sadducees.” 16:23 Get behind Me, Satan! The harshness
And they reasoned among themselves, say- of this rebuke contrasts sharply with Christ’s
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ing, “It is because we have taken no bread.” words of commendation in vv.17–19.Jesus sug-
8 But Jesus, being aware of it, said to them, gested that Peter was being a mouthpiece for
“O you of little faith, why do you reason Satan. Jesus’ death was part of God’s sovereign
among yourselves because you have brought plan (Acts 2:23; 4:27,28).“It pleased the LORD to
no bread? Do you not yet understand, or bruise Him”(Is.53:10).Christ had come with the
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remember the five loaves of the five thousand express purpose of dying as an atonement for
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and how many baskets you took up? Nor the sin (John 12:27). And those who would thwart
seven loaves of the four thousand and how His mission were doing Satan’s work.
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many large baskets you took up? How is it
you do not understand that I did not speak to
you concerning bread?—but to beware of the
24 Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If any-
leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”
Then they understood that He did not tell
12 one desires to come after Me, let him deny
them to beware of the leaven of bread, but of himself, and take up his cross, and follow
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the doctrine of the Pharisees and Sadducees. Me. For whoever desires to save his life will
13 When Jesus came into the region of lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake
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Caesarea Philippi, He asked His disciples, will find it. For what profit is it to a man if
saying, “Who do men say that I, the Son of he gains the whole world, and loses his own
Man, am?” soul? Or what will a man give in exchange
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So they said, “Some say John the Baptist,
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some Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the in the glory of His Father with His angels,
prophets.” and then He will reward each according to
He said to them, “But who do you say that his works.
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I am?” 28 Assuredly, I say to you, there are some
Simon Peter answered and said, “You are standing here who shall not taste death till they
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the Christ, the Son of the living God.” see the Son of Man coming in His kingdom.”
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