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|Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.

|Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.

|Simon Peter replied, "Lord, who else is there?  You have the words of eternal life.

|Simon Peter replied, "Lord, where could we go?  You are speaking the words of eternal life.

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|Here, Peter uses ῥῆμα, emphasizing the actual controversial words Jesus is speaking right now (as opposed to "logos" which would have emphasized the full content of everything Jesus had ever spoken). The implication is, "controversial or not, we know that these things you are saying right now contain eternal life."

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|And we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God.

|And we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God.

|We are certain that you are the Christ, the Son of the living God."

|We have been completely confident for some time now that you are the Holy One of God.

|Almost all early texts, including P75, Alexandrinus, Vaticanus, Ephraemi Rescriptus and Bezae Cantabrigiensis all read "Holy One of God." P66, considered the most unreliable of the oldest texts (due to containing 5 times as many copy errors as p75), reads "Christ, the Holy One of God." The phrase "Christ, the Son of the Living God" appears to have been added to Ephraemi Rescriptus by a late corrector, but the condition of the page makes it difficult to determine for sure. "Christ, the Son of the Living God" appears in the content of the text for the first time in the Byzantine texts of the ninth century, so confidence is very high among scholars that "Holy One of God" is the original phrase.

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