He asked who he was, who they thought he was. To have a meaning, a value or even a name, it had to be given by someone else. What he might say about himself was at this stage less important.
They told him what the people said. That he was being called a prophet or the incarnation of someone else's spirit. It was not what he needed to hear. So many titles and names. What he meant to them was more important, so he asked again. They said he was God's annointed. They called him their Messiah, and so he was. In that moment of recognition, it is who he became. He could not be Messiah for himself; it needed them before it could be.
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