The reading for Trinity 12 in Year A is Matthew 16.13–20. It is Peter’s confession of who Jesus is as Messiah, but it also contains Matthew’s unique material in which Jesus calls Peter ‘rock’, gives him the keys to the kingdom, and commissions him to bind and loose.
But these three ideas are much misunderstood, and we need to see them in both canonical and cultural context to read them well. This passage tells both of Jesus identity as Son of the Living God, but also of the remarkable partnership he calls us into in the things of the kingdom.
For written commentary on this passage, see here.
For discussion of the word ‘church’ and why we should mostly avoid it in translating the New Testament, see here.
For the very encouraging Grove booklet on Encouragement by Ian Silk, see here.
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