Matthew 16:15-19
Matthew 16:15
He *said to them, “But who do you yourselves say that I am?”
Matthew 16:16
Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
Matthew 16:17
And Jesus said to him, “Blessed are you, Simon Barjona, because flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but My Father who is in heaven.
Matthew 16:18
And I also say to you that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build My church; and the gates of Hades will not overpower it.
Matthew 16:19
I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; and whatever you bind on earth shall have been bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall have been loosed in heaven.”