Mark 8:29

He asked them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter answered him, ¹  “You are the Christ.” ² 

Mt 16:15; Mt 16:16; Mr 4:11; Lu 9:20; Joh 1:41-49; Joh 4:42; Joh 6:69; Joh 11:27; Ac 8:37; Ac 9:20; 1Pe 2:7; 1Jo 4:15; 1Jo 5:1

¹ tn Grk “Answering, Peter said to him.” This is redundant in contemporary English and has been simplified to “Peter answered him.”

² tn Or “the Messiah”; both “Christ” (Greek) and “Messiah” (Hebrew and Aramaic) mean “one who has been anointed.”

sn The term χριστός (cristos) was originally an adjective (“anointed”), developing in LXX into a substantive (“an anointed one”), then developing still further into a technical generic term (“the anointed one”). In the intertestamental period it developed further into a technical term referring to the hoped-for anointed one, that is, a specific individual. In the NT the development starts there (technical-specific), is so used in the gospels, and then develops in Paul to mean virtually Jesus’ last name.