20 He said unto them, But whom say ye that I am? Peter answering said, The Christ of God.
20 "But what about you?" he asked. "Who do you say I am?"Peter answered, "God's Messiah."
20 Then he said to them, "But who do you say that I am?" And Peter answered, "The Christ of God."
20 He then asked, "And you - what are you saying about me? Who am I?" Peter answered, "The Messiah of God."
20 He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?" Peter answered and said, "The Christ of God."
20 Then he asked them, "But who do you say I am?" Peter replied, "You are the Messiah sent from God!"
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Luke 9:20
Commentary on Luke 9:18-27
(Read Luke 9:18-27)
It is an unspeakable comfort that our Lord Jesus is God's Anointed; this signifies that he was both appointed to be the Messiah, and qualified for it. Jesus discourses concerning his own sufferings and death. And so far must his disciples be from thinking how to prevent his sufferings, that they must prepare for their own. We often meet with crosses in the way of duty; and though we must not pull them upon our own heads, yet, when they are laid for us, we must take them up, and carry them after Christ. It is well or ill with us, according as it is well or ill with our souls. The body cannot be happy, if the soul be miserable in the other world; but the soul may be happy, though the body is greatly afflicted and oppressed in this world. We must never be ashamed of Christ and his gospel.