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Today is Resurrection Sunday, or Easter from the German language meaning to rise up. This is the day that we commemorate Jesus' resurrection from the grave. Today I want to visit instead Matthew 16 and consider who Jesus was and besides His death for our sins, what His purpose was here on earth?