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Sally A Brown   Professor Emerita, Princeton Theological Seminary Matthew’s careful placement of today’s Gospel text (Mt 16:13-20, often referred to as Peter’s “confession of faith”) hints at its pivotal significance, both literary and theological, for this gospel as a whole. First, the setting—Caesarea Philippi—would have been striking for Mt’s earliest, late-first-century readers. In their day,…