It is a cause of abiding sadness for me that many friends, family and fellow poets whom I have come to know and love via Facebook, are at a loss to answer the question asked of each and every one of us at the end of this passage.
When Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi he put this question to his disciples, ‘Who do people say the Son of Man is?’ And they said, ‘Some say he is John the Baptist, some Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.’ ‘But you,’ he said ‘who do you say I am?’
"It may be that universal history is the history of the different intonations given a handful of metaphors." Jorge Luis Borges
Reflection arising from the mass readings of Sunday 27 August. http://www.universalis.com/NZ/20170827/mass.htm