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Jesus said to him, "Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah!
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For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you,
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but my Father in heaven.
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And I tell you,you are Peter,
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and on this rock I will build my church,
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and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.
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I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven,
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and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven,
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and whatever you loose on earth on will be loosed in heaven."
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Then he sternly ordered the disciples not to tell anyone
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that he was the Messiah.
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Between the command to silence,