Who do people say the Son of Man is?
Scripture · the question’s frame
When Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi, he put a question to his disciples: who do people say the Son of Man is?
The disciples answered with what they had heard. Some say John the Baptist, others Elijah, others Jeremiah or one of the prophets (v. 14). Every one of these answers is respectful, and every one of them puts Jesus down as ‘someone like somebody else’.
The answers today are much the same: a good teacher, a saint, one of the founders of the religions. This guide weighs those answers one by one against history and the records. But Jesus’ question did not stop there.