Confessing Jesus

[When Peter confesses Jesus as Messiah, he] had learned that Christ is the Son of God. But he had not learned of the mystery of the cross and the resurrection. Do you see how correct Jesus was in forbidding [the disciples] not to declare his identity publicly? For if it confounded the disciples, who were being made aware of it, who knows what the response of others might have been?

–John Chrysostom, The Gospel of Matthew, Homily 54.5-6