- 30 - Even the Apostles had doubts about their Master on more than one occasion, for they also had had a different conception of the Messiah. Not until the day when Simon Peter gave utterance to his conviction: Matthew 16: 16: ‘You are the Christ, the Son of the living God’ Did his Apostles know that in Jesus of Nazareth the ‘Son of God’ had come upon earth? Peter had not reached this conviction, however, by reason of Christ’s words and actions or by any process of reasoning of his own, but by virtue of a revelation from God. Matthew 16: 17: ‘This was not revealed to you by flesh and blood, but by my heavenly Father.’
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