“Chapter 8 of Mark’s Gospel is a pivotal chapter. It’s the climax of the first act, in which the disciples finally begin to see the true identity of the one they have been following…Here at last Peter begins to get the answer to the big question, ‘Who is Jesus?’ He proposes to Jesus, ‘You are the Chirst.’ Peter is using a word that literally means ‘anointed one.’ Kings were traditionally anointed with oil as a kind of coronation, but the word Christos had come to mean the Anointed One, the Messiah, the King to end all kings, the King who’s going to put everything right” (Timothy Keller, King’s Cross, 95-96).