Whom Say Ye That I Am?

Matthew 15:21–17:27

A Canaanite woman's persistent faith wins her daughter's healing, and Jesus feeds a crowd of four thousand for the second time. When religious leaders demand a miraculous sign, he refuses, and warns his disciples about a kind of leaven far more dangerous than yeast. At Caesarea Philippi, he asks the question this whole Gospel has been building toward — who do you say that I am? — and Peter's answer becomes the rock on which everything else stands. Six days later, on a mountain, Peter, James, and John watch Jesus transfigured before their eyes, talking with Moses and Elijah, before coming back down to a father whose son needed healing the other disciples couldn't provide.

We are in a Matthew-John Harmony. Today's episode covers: Matthew 15:21–17:27 (the Canaanite woman, the Feeding of the Four Thousand, Peter's confession at Caesarea Philippi, the Transfiguration, and the coin in the fish's mouth).