What Does Mark 8:29 Mean?
And he said to them, But who do you say that I am? And Peter answered and said to him, You are the Anointed One.
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King James Version
And he saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? And Peter answereth and saith unto him, Thou art the Christ.THE KEY
Christ names Jesus as the Anointed One, with the act of anointing still alive inside the title.
THE MEANING
The question comes to you beneath what others say about Jesus: whom do you say he is? Peter names him as the Anointed One, a title that carries the calling entrusted to him.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
What others say about Jesus is enough to settle who he is.
THE ROOT
Χριστός
Christos
GROWS FROM
χρι
χρί- (chri-) means to anoint, to apply oil as a mark.
“the Anointed One” in this verse is Christos. The Greek stem χρι- (chri-) keeps the title connected to χρίω (chriō, “to anoint”) and χρῖσμα (chrisma, “anointing”). “Christ” can sound like a name attached to Jesus, while Χριστός names him as the one anointed.
ALSO GROWS
chriō: To anoint; to apply oil.
χρίω
This verb carries the action inside the title: Jesus is identified by the act of anointing.
chrisma: Anointing; anointing substance.
χρῖσμα
This noun names what comes from the same stem, keeping the title joined to the act and mark of anointing.
Christos: The Anointed One.
Χριστός
This is the title Peter speaks, naming Jesus through the anointing carried by the root.
THE PATTERN
Anointing marks a calling that testimony can recognize even while rival voices contest it.
Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the midst of his brothers, and the breath of the LORD rushed upon David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up and went to Ramah.The kings of the earth take their stand, and the rulers sit down together against the LORD and against his anointed one, saying,He first found his own brother Simon, and said to him, We have found the Anointed One.THE THREAD
He first found his own brother Simon, and said to him, We have found the Anointed One.John explicitly pairs “Messias” with “Christ,” identifying both as “the Anointed One.” Mark gives Peter’s recognition in that same title, whose Greek root still carries the act of anointing.
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