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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>Matthew 16 ISV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/matthew/16.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/matthew/16-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ISV</a> > Matthew 16</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../matthew/15.htm" title="Matthew 15">◄</a> Matthew 16 <a href="../matthew/17.htm" title="Matthew 17">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">International Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/isv/esv/matthew/16.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Interpreting the Time</p><p class="cross_ref">(<a href="http://isv.scripturetext.com/mark/8.htm">Mark 8:11-13</a>; <a href="http://isv.scripturetext.com/luke/12.htm">Luke 12:54-56</a>)</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/16-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>When the Pharisees and Sadducees arrived, in order to test Jesus<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="16:1 Lit. him">a</a></span> they asked him to show them a sign from heaven. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/16-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>He replied to them, <span class="red">“You say,</span></p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="red">‘Red sky at night,</span></p> <p class="poetry2"><span class="red">what a delight!</span></p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/16-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="red">Red sky in the morning,</span></p> <p class="poetry2 marginbot"><span class="red">cloudy and storming.’</span></p> <p class="reg"><span class="red">You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, yet you can’t interpret the signs of the times?<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="16:3 Other mss. lack You say. . . the signs of the times?">b</a></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/16-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>An evil and adulterous generation craves a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah.”</span> Then he left them and went away.</p> <p class="heading">The Yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees</p><p class="cross_ref">(<a href="http://isv.scripturetext.com/mark/8.htm">Mark 8:14-21</a>)</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/16-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>When his disciples reached the other side, they had forgotten to take any bread along. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/16-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Jesus told them, <span class="red">“Watch out! Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees!”</span></p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/16-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>As they began to discuss this among themselves, they kept saying, “We didn’t bring along any bread.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/16-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Knowing this, Jesus asked them, <span class="red">“You who have little faith, why are you discussing among yourselves the fact that you don’t have any bread? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/16-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Don’t you understand yet? Don’t you remember the five loaves for the 5,000 and how many baskets you collected, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/16-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>or the seven loaves for the 4,000 and how many baskets you collected? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/16-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>How can you fail to understand that I wasn’t talking to you about bread? Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees!”</span></p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/16-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Then they understood that he did not say to beware of the yeast used in bread,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="16:12 Other mss. read the loaf of bread">c</a></span> but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.</p> <p class="heading">Peter Declares His Faith in Jesus</p><p class="cross_ref">(<a href="http://isv.scripturetext.com/mark/8.htm">Mark 8:27-30</a>; <a href="http://isv.scripturetext.com/luke/9.htm">Luke 9:18-21</a>)</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/16-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>When Jesus had come to the region of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, <span class="red">“Who do people say the Son of Man is?”</span></p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/16-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>They said, “Some say<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="16:14 The Gk. lacks say">d</a></span> John the Baptist, others Elijah, and still others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/16-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>He asked them, <span class="red">“But who do you say I am?”</span></p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/16-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Simon Peter answered, “You are the Messiah,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="16:16 Or Christ">e</a></span> the Son of the living God!”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/16-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Then Jesus told him, <span class="red">“How blessed you are, Simon son of Jonah,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="16:17 Or Simon son of John; Lit. Simon bar Jonah; cf. John 1:42">f</a></span> since flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, though my Father in heaven has. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/16-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>I tell you that you are Peter,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="16:18 Lit. Petros">g</a></span> and it is on this rock<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="16:18 Lit. petra">h</a></span> that I will build my congregation,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="16:18 Or church">i</a></span> and the powers of hell<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="16:18 Lit. the gates of Hades, a reference to the realm of the dead">j</a></span> will not conquer it. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/16-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>I will give you the keys to the kingdom from<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="16:19 Lit. of">k</a></span> heaven. Whatever you prohibit on earth will have been prohibited<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="16:19 Or will be prohibited">l</a></span> in heaven, and whatever you permit on earth will have been permitted<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="16:19 Or will be permitted">m</a></span> in heaven.”</span></p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/16-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Then he strictly ordered the disciples not to tell anyone that he was the Messiah.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="16:20 Or Christ">n</a></span> </p> <p class="heading">Jesus Predicts His Death and Resurrection</p><p class="cross_ref">(<a href="http://isv.scripturetext.com/mark/8.htm">Mark 8:31-9:1</a>; <a href="http://isv.scripturetext.com/luke/9.htm">Luke 9:21-27</a>)</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/16-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>From that time on, Jesus began to show his disciples that he would have to go to Jerusalem and suffer a great deal because of the elders, the high priests, and the scribes. Then he would be killed, but on the third day he would be raised. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/16-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him, saying, “God be merciful to you, Lord! This must never happen to you!”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/16-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>But Jesus<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="16:23 Lit. he">o</a></span> turned and told Peter, <span class="red">“Get behind me, Satan! You are an offense<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="16:23 Or a hindrance">p</a></span> to me, because you are not thinking God’s thoughts but human thoughts!”</span></p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/16-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Then Jesus told his disciples, <span class="red">“If anyone wants to follow me, he must deny himself, pick up his cross, and follow me continuously. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/16-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/16-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>because what profit will a person have if he gains the whole world and forfeits his life? Or what can a person give in exchange for his life? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/16-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>The Son of Man is going to come with his angels in his Father’s glory, and then he will repay everyone according to what he has done. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/16-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>I tell all of you<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="16:28 The Gk. pronoun you is pl.">q</a></span> with certainty, some people standing here will not experience<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="16:28 Lit. taste">r</a></span> death before they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom.”</span></p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="ftn"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn1"><span class="fnb">a</span> 16:1 Lit. <i>him</i><br /><span class="fnb">b</span> 16:3 Other mss. lack <i>You say. . . the signs of the times?</i><br /><span class="fnb">c</span> 16:12 Other mss. read <i>the loaf of bread</i><br /><span class="fnb">d</span> 16:14 The Gk. lacks <i>say</i><br /><span class="fnb">e</span> 16:16 Or <i>Christ</i><br /><span class="fnb">f</span> 16:17 Or <i>Simon son of John</i>; Lit. <i>Simon bar Jonah</i>; cf. John 1:42<br /><span class="fnb">g</span> 16:18 Lit. <i>Petros</i><br /><span class="fnb">h</span> 16:18 Lit. <i>petra</i><br /><span class="fnb">i</span> 16:18 Or <i>church</i><br /><span class="fnb">j</span> 16:18 Lit. <i>the gates of Hades,</i> a reference to the realm of the dead<br /><span class="fnb">k</span> 16:19 Lit. <i>of</i><br /><span class="fnb">l</span> 16:19 Or <i>will be prohibited</i><br /><span class="fnb">m</span> 16:19 Or <i>will be permitted</i><br /><span class="fnb">n</span> 16:20 Or <i>Christ</i><br /><span class="fnb">o</span> 16:23 Lit. <i>he</i><br /><span class="fnb">p</span> 16:23 Or <i>a hindrance</i><br /><span class="fnb">q</span> 16:28 The Gk. pronoun <i>you</i> is pl.<br /><span class="fnb">r</span> 16:28 Lit. <i>taste</i><br /></span><br><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><div align="center"><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible: International Standard Version® Release 2.1<br />Copyright © 1996-2012 The ISV Foundation<br />ALL RIGHTS RESERVED INTERNATIONALLY.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../matthew/15.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Matthew 15"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Matthew 15" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../matthew/17.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Matthew 17"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Matthew 17" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpc/matthew/16-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe width="122" height="860" scrolling="no" src="../sidemenu.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="bot"><div align="center" style="background-color:#F2FAFF"><br /><br /><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>  <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="6710025936" data-ad-format="auto"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></td></tr></table><br /><br /><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>  <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="6710025936" data-ad-format="auto"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></td></tr></table></div><br /><br /> </div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="//biblehu.com/botmenubhnm2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span></div></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>