An Object Lesson

The Lord uses this as an object lesson for His disciples, contrasting it to the revelation He was about to make, which should stand forever, and against which the gates of Hades would be powerless. The Lord begins by asking in Matt. 16 verse 13, "Whom do men say that 1, the Son of man, am?" The disciples answer that some said one thing, some another, but all were wrong. You will find no definite certainty in the thoughts of man, only probabilities. It is only God who can present things as they arc, with the truth. He has done so in a Person, in His own beloved Son, the One who could say. "I am the way, the truth, and the life." So much for the vanity of men's opinions. The Lord dismisses them without any comment whatever, and puts this searching question to the disciples.
If you could see Him standing here and from His own lips hear this question, "Whom say ye that I am?" could you answer as Peter did? Can you say, as the Apostle John could: "We know that the Son of God has come, and He has given us an understanding that we may know Him that is true; and we are in Him that is true, even in His Son, Jesus Christ"?