Matthew 16

1The Pharisees and Sadducees came, and testing him, asked him to show them a sign from heaven.Cross-references: Matt 3:7 · Matt 5:20 · Matt 9:11 · Matt 12:14 · Matt 12:38 · Matt 15:1 · +26 more

2But he answered them, “When it is evening, you say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is red.’Cross-references: Luke 12:54

3In the morning, ‘It will be foul weather today, for the sky is red and threatening.’ Hypocrites! You know how to discern the appearance of the sky, but you can’t discern the signs of the times!Cross-references: 1Chr 12:32 · Matt 4:23 · Matt 7:5 · Matt 11:5 · Matt 15:7 · Matt 22:18 · +4 more

4An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and there will be no sign given to it, except the sign of the prophet Jonah.” He left them and departed.Cross-references: Gen 6:3 · Hos 4:17 · Hos 9:12 · Jonah 1:17 · Matt 12:39 · Matt 15:14 · +6 more

5The disciples came to the other side and had forgotten to take bread.Cross-references: Matt 15:39 · Mark 8:13

6Jesus said to them, “Take heed and beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”Cross-references: Ex 12:15 · Lev 2:11 · Matt 16:12 · Mark 8:15 · Luke 12:1 · Luke 12:15 · +3 more

7They reasoned among themselves, saying, “We brought no bread.”Cross-references: Matt 15:16 · Mark 8:16 · Mark 9:10 · Luke 9:46 · Acts 10:14

8Jesus, perceiving it, said, “Why do you reason among yourselves, you of little faith, because you have brought no bread?Cross-references: Matt 6:30 · Matt 8:26 · Matt 14:31 · Mark 16:14 · John 2:24 · John 16:30 · +2 more

9Don’t you yet perceive or remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you took up,Cross-references: Matt 14:17 · Matt 15:16 · Mark 6:38 · Mark 7:18 · Luke 9:13 · Luke 24:25 · +2 more

10or the seven loaves for the four thousand, and how many baskets you took up?Cross-references: Matt 15:34 · Mark 8:5 · Mark 8:17

11How is it that you don’t perceive that I didn’t speak to you concerning bread? But beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”Cross-references: Matt 16:6 · Mark 4:40 · Mark 8:21 · Luke 12:56 · John 8:43

12Then they understood that he didn’t tell them to beware of the yeast of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.Cross-references: Matt 5:20 · Matt 15:4 · Matt 23:13 · Acts 23:8

13Now when Jesus came into the parts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, “Who do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?”Cross-references: Dan 7:13 · Matt 8:20 · Matt 9:6 · Matt 12:8 · Matt 12:32 · Matt 12:40 · +15 more

14They said, “Some say John the Baptizer, some, Elijah, and others, Jeremiah or one of the prophets.”Cross-references: Mal 4:5 · Matt 14:2 · Matt 17:10 · Mark 6:15 · Mark 8:28 · Luke 9:8 · +5 more

15He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?”Cross-references: Matt 13:11 · Mark 8:29 · Luke 9:20

16Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”Cross-references: Deut 5:26 · Ps 2:7 · Ps 42:2 · Dan 6:26 · Matt 4:3 · Matt 14:33 · +22 moreExamined: Quran & the Bible →

17Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.Cross-references: Isa 54:13 · Matt 5:3 · Matt 11:25 · Matt 13:16 · Luke 10:21 · Luke 22:32 · +19 moreExamined: Quran & the Bible →

18I also tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.Cross-references: Gen 22:17 · 2Sam 18:4 · Job 38:17 · Ps 9:13 · Ps 69:12 · Ps 107:18 · +31 moreExamined: Mormonism →

19I will give to you the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will have been bound in heaven; and whatever you release on earth will have been released in heaven.”Cross-references: Isa 22:22 · Matt 18:18 · John 20:23 · Acts 2:14 · Acts 10:34 · Acts 15:7 · +8 more

20Then he commanded the disciples that they should tell no one that he was Jesus the Christ.Cross-references: Matt 8:4 · Matt 17:9 · Mark 8:30 · Mark 9:9 · Luke 9:21 · Luke 9:36 · +6 more

21From that time, Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up.Cross-references: 1Chr 24:1 · Neh 12:7 · Matt 16:28 · Matt 17:12 · Matt 17:22 · Matt 20:17 · +19 more

22Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him, saying, “Far be it from you, Lord! This will never be done to you.”Cross-references: 1Ki 22:13 · Matt 16:16 · Matt 26:51 · Mark 8:32 · John 13:6 · Acts 21:11

23But he turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me, for you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of men.”Cross-references: Gen 3:1 · Gen 3:17 · 2Sam 19:22 · 1Chr 21:1 · Isa 8:14 · Zech 3:1 · +12 more

24Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.Cross-references: Matt 10:38 · Matt 27:32 · Mark 8:34 · Mark 10:21 · Mark 15:21 · Luke 9:23 · +9 more

25For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, and whoever will lose his life for my sake will find it.Cross-references: Esth 4:14 · Esth 4:16 · Matt 10:39 · Mark 8:35 · Luke 17:33 · John 12:25 · +2 more

26For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?Cross-references: Job 2:4 · Job 27:8 · Ps 49:7 · Matt 4:8 · Matt 5:29 · Mark 8:36 · +3 more

27For the Son of Man will come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will give to everyone according to his deeds.Cross-references: Job 34:11 · Ps 62:12 · Prov 24:12 · Isa 3:10 · Jer 17:10 · Jer 32:19 · +30 more

28Most certainly I tell you, there are some standing here who will in no way taste of death until they see the Son of Man coming in his Kingdom.”Cross-references: Matt 10:23 · Matt 24:3 · Matt 24:27 · Matt 24:42 · Matt 26:64 · Mark 9:1 · +8 more