Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
Caesarea Philippi (Kaisariav thv Filippou). Up on a spur of Mt. Hermon under the rule of Herod Philip.
He asked (hrwta). Began to question, inchoative imperfect tense. He was giving them a test or examination. The first was for the opinion of men about the Son of Man.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Matthew 16:13:
Mark 8:27
Luke 9:19
Luke 9:28
John 6:69
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