If Jesus asked you today, “Who do you say I am?”, what would you say? Join us this Sunday as Pastor Scott explores how different people responded to Jesus, from the healed and delivered to the doubtful and offended. In a world full of idols and opinions, Jesus calls each of us to a personal decision.
Life’s Most Important Questions
(Mark 8:27-33)
March 1, 2026 | Pastor Scott George
Mark 8:27-33, Jesus and his disciples went on to the villages around Caesarea Philippi. On the way he asked them, “Who do people say I am?”
28 They replied, “Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, one of the prophets.”
29 “But what about you?” he asked. “Who do you say I am?”
Peter answered, “You are the Messiah.” 30 Jesus warned them not to tell anyone about him.
31 He then began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and after three days rise again. 32 He spoke plainly about this, and Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him.
33 But when Jesus turned and looked at his disciples, he rebuked Peter. “Get behind me, Satan!” he said. “You do not have in mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns.”
What others are saying about who Jesus is…
- “You must make your choice: either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse.”
- C. S. Lewis
1. Who do people say I am?
2. But what about you?
3. Who do you say I am?
Caesarea Philippi – City of Pagan Worship
What idols do you have?
Mark 1:21, Jesus drives out a demon from a man.
What would this man say about Jesus?
Mark 1:29-31, Jesus heals Simon’s mother-in-law of fever.
What would this woman say about Jesus?
Mark 1:40, Jesus heals a man with leprosy.
What would this man say about Jesus?
Mark 2:5,11, Jesus heals a paralyzed man.
What would this man say about Jesus?
Mark 2:15, Jesus has dinner with sinners and tax collectors.
What would these people say about Jesus?
Mark 3:1, Jesus heals a man with a shriveled hand.
What would this man say about Jesus?
Mark 3:6, They plot how they may kill Jesus.
Then the Pharisees went out and began to plot with the Herodians how they might kill Jesus.
What would they say about Jesus?
Mark 3:13, Jesus picks 12 disciples.
What would the disciples say about Jesus?
Mark 4:35-39, Jesus calms the storm.
What would they say about Jesus?
Mark 5:1-11 - Jesus casts out a demon into a legion of pigs.
What would this man say about Jesus?
Mark 5:23, Jesus is asked to heal Jairus’s daughter.
What would she say about Jesus?
Mark 5:25, Jesus heals a woman with an issue of blood.
What would she say about Jesus?
Mark 6:1-6, Jesus is limited to working miracles because of the unbelief of his hometown.
Jesus left there and went to his hometown, accompanied by his disciples. 2 When the Sabbath came, he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were amazed.
“Where did this man get these things?” they asked. “What’s this wisdom that has been given him? What are these remarkable miracles he is performing? 3 Isn’t this the carpenter? Isn’t this Mary’s son and the brother of James, Joseph, Judas and Simon? Aren’t his sisters here with us?” And they took offense at him.
4 Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his own town, among his relatives and in his own home.” 5 He could not do any miracles there, except lay his hands on a few sick people and heal them. 6 He was amazed at their lack of faith. Then Jesus went around teaching from village to village.
What would they say about Jesus?
