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## Matthew 16:15-17 in Context (Verses 12–20 KJV)
 
 [12 ](/kjv/matthew/16/12) Then understood they how that he bade *them* not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.
 
 [13 ](/kjv/matthew/16/13) ¶ 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?
 
 [14 ](/kjv/matthew/16/14) And they said, Some *say that thou art* John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets.
 
 [15 ](/kjv/matthew/16/15) He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am?
 
 [16 ](/kjv/matthew/16/16) And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.
 
 [17 ](/kjv/matthew/16/17) And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed *it* unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.
 
 [18 ](/kjv/matthew/16/18) And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
 
 [19 ](/kjv/matthew/16/19) And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
 
 [20 ](/kjv/matthew/16/20) Then charged he his disciples that they should tell no man that he was Jesus the Christ.
 
[Matthew 15](/kjv/matthew/15) [Matthew 17](/kjv/matthew/17)

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