Peter Declares his Faith

PETER DECLARES his FAITH

Caesarea Philippi is the most northerly point of Jesus’ journeys, in a remote non-Jewish area in the foothills of the Mount Hermon range. He takes his disciples not to the town itself but into the countryside, and the whole focus of this part of the story is on time spent by Jesus alone with his disciples. He has not come here for public ministry, but for private instruction. And like any good teacher he begins with questions…