Mark 8:29

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

"But what about you?" he asked. "Who do you say I am?" Peter answered, "You are the Christ."

And He continued by questioning them, "But who do you say that I am?" Peter *answered and *said to Him, "You are the Christ."

Then Jesus asked, "Who do you say I am?" Peter replied, "You are the Messiah."

He then asked, "And you--what are you saying about me? Who am I?" Peter gave the answer: "You are the Christ, the Messiah."

And he said to them, But who do you say I am? Peter said in answer, You are the Christ.

He asked them, "But who do you say that I am?" Peter answered him, "You are the Messiah."

He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?" Peter answered and said to Him, "You are the Christ."

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

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.