The New Testament Church
Jesus, while on His missionary journey, asked His disciples a question as recorded in Matthew 16:13, “Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?” Several of the disciples present answered that question. And then Jesus asked them a different question in verse 15, “But whom say ye that I am?” Simon Peter spoke up and told Jesus exactly who he thought Him to be. His answer is recorded in verse 16, “Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.” In the original language, The term “Christ” comes from the Greek word, “Christos” which means ‘anointed one’. It has a Hebrew equivalent which is ‘mashiyach’, which in our language has come to mean ‘Messiah’. So Peter’s answer to Jesus’s question was, “you are the anointed one, the Son of the living God”
