Matthew 16:17

World Messianic Bible British Edition

Yeshua 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

Isaiah 54:13

All your children will be taught by the LORD, and your children’s peace will be great.

Luke 22:32

but I prayed for you, that your faith wouldn’t fail. You, when once you have turned again, establish your brothers.”

John 1:42

He brought him to Yeshua. Yeshua looked at him and said, “You are Simon the son of Jonah. You shall be called Kefa” (which is by interpretation, Peter).

John 6:45

It is written in the Prophets, ‘They will all be taught by God.’ Therefore everyone who hears from the Father and has learnt, comes to me.

1 Corinthians 15:50

Now I say this, brothers, that flesh and blood can’t inherit God’s Kingdom; neither does the perishable inherit imperishable.

Galatians 1:16

to reveal his Son in me, that I might proclaim him amongst the Gentiles, I didn’t immediately confer with flesh and blood,

Ephesians 2:8

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

Ephesians 3:5

which in other generations was not made known to the children of men, as it has now been revealed to his holy emissaries and prophets in the Spirit,

Ephesians 6:12

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

Hebrews 2:14

Since then the children have shared in flesh and blood, he also himself in the same way partook of the same, that through death he might bring to nothing him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,

1 Peter 5:1

Therefore I exhort the elders amongst you, as a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Messiah, and who will also share in the glory that will be revealed:

1 John 4:15

Whoever confesses that Yeshua is the Son of God, God remains in him, and he in God.

1 John 5:20

We know that the Son of God has come and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Yeshua the Messiah. This is the true God and eternal life.