Matthew 16:15 He [Jesus] said to them, But you, who do you say that I am? 16 And Simon Peter answered and said, You are the Christ, the Son of the living God. 17 And Jesus answered and said to him, Blessed are you, Simon Barjona, because flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father who is in the heavens.
No other person in history has affected mankind as much as Jesus Christ has. No person has been as much honored and worshipped as Jesus Christ has, and yet at the same time no person has remained as much a mystery to the human mind as He has. Many historians have considered Him a great leader, and many social reformers have considered Him a great teacher of mankind. Napoleon ranked himself equal with Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, and Charlemagne, but acknowledged that Jesus was above all of them and belonged to a different class. The early Marxists denied that He is God, and Engels even denied that Jesus ever existed. But later Marxists admitted that attempts to erase Jesus from European history and culture were fruitless and ridiculous, and that Jesus is "an example of the most sacred human values."
Who is Jesus? This is one of the great questions among men since the birth of Jesus nearly two thousand years ago. One day Jesus earnestly desired to reveal Himself to His disciples... Then Jesus proceeded to ask them a most pointed question, a question which we all must answer: "but you, who do you say that I am?". Only one of Jesus' disciples, Peter, answered by saying, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God". By saying that Jesus was the Son of the living God, Peter was saying that Christ was God Himself. The Lord responded to Peter by saying, "Blessed are you...". We need heavenly revelation to receive the blessing of seeing who Christ really is.