Matthew 17: This is my Son

 Peter declared that Jesus is the Son of God, but now the Father declares that Jesus is his son. In a private moment with only three disciples: Peter , John and James, Jesus shines and a voice is heard:

5 While he was going on like this, babbling, a light-radiant cloud enveloped them, and sounding from deep in the cloud a voice: “This is my Son, marked by my love, focus of my delight. Listen to him.”

Who in the Old Testament was called the Son of God? The nation of Israel, but there was not a single person who was called the Son of God. To the first Christians, the statement: "Jesus, the Messiah, Son of God" was very important, so important that the fish was the symbol of the first Christians due to ICTUS ( (Ι) = Iesus (Jesus), (Χ) = Christos (Christ), (Θ) = Theos (God), (Υ) = Yios (Son), (Σ) = Soter (Savior)).

Jesus is the son loved by the Lord in whom the Lord delights. Certainly Jesus was not a spoiled child. Soon after this statement we read:

22-23 As they were regrouping in Galilee, Jesus told them, “The Son of Man is about to be betrayed to some people who want nothing to do with God. They will murder him—and three days later he will be raised alive.” The disciples felt scared to death.

Jesus, the Messiah, Son of God knew he was to suffer in the cross, but he also knew he would defeat death.