Upon reading Jesus’s question to the disciples in Matthew 16:15, “But who do you say I am?”, the response seems obvious. Peter declares in verse 16, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God” and Jesus is pleased. For us, over 2,000 years later this declaration feels anticlimactic since we hold the whole story in our hands. However, the importance of who Jesus is and how that impacts our daily life can be easy to miss. This is true for Peter just a few verses further in the text and can be for us today as well. Until we understand who He is, we cannot truly understand what his death and resurrection mean for us.