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When Iesus came into the coasts of Cesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom doe men say, that I, the sonne of man, am?

And they said, Some say that thou art Iohn the Baptist, some Elias, and others Ieremias, or one of ye Prophets.

He saith vnto them, But whom say ye that I am?

And Simon Peter answered, and said, Thou art Christ the sonne of the liuing God.

And Iesus answered, and said vnto him, Blessed art thou Simon Bar Iona: for flesh and blood hath not reueiled it vnto thee, but my Father which is in heauen.

And I say also vnto thee, that thou art Peter, and vpon this rocke I will build my Church: and the gates of hell shall not preuaile against it.

And I will giue vnto thee the keyes of the kingdome of heauen: and whatsoeuer thou shalt bind on earth, shall be bound in heauen: whatsoeuer thou shalt loose on earth, shall be loosed in heauen.

Then charged hee his disciples that they should tel no man that he was Iesus the Christ.