And he saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? And Peter answereth and saith unto him, Thou art the Christ.
Ver. 29. Thou art the Christ] This was much in few. Here is not Thou art Peter, and upon this rock, &c. Which if either St Mark or St Peter had esteemed (as Papists now do) the foundation of the Christian Church, it had not been here omitted (as Beza well observeth), since it goes for current among the ancients, that St Mark wrote this Gospel at St Peter's mouth.