What did Peter say when Jesus asked whom the disciples said He was?
Peter answered, 'Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.' After Jesus asked first whom men said He was—some John the Baptist, some Elijah, some other prophet—He asked the disciples directly, and Peter confessed Him as the Christ, the Son of the living God.
Les explains that this exchange took place way back in Matthew 16, in northern Israel, where Jesus had the twelve. Jesus first asked, 'And who do men say that I the Son of man am?' The disciples answered that some thought John the Baptist, some Elijah, and some another prophet. Then Jesus asked them directly, 'Whom do you say that I am?' Peter answered, 'Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.'
When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?
And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets.
He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am?
And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.
More Questions
What did Peter really confess when Jesus asked 'Whom say ye that I am?'
Simon Peter's actual confession in Matthew was "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God"—he did not say 'who died for me, was buried, and rose from the dead.'
What did Peter's confession not say about Jesus?
Peter's confession that Jesus was the Christ, the Son of the living God, did not include that Jesus died for sins and rose from the dead; that part was not part of the confession.