Who Am I?

Then he asked them, "But who do you say I am?" Peter replied, "You are the Messiah." Yahshua asked this question of his disciples because he wanted to gauge their faith in God's promise to Moses which was this:

"I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers; I will put my words in his mouth, and he will tell them everything I command him." Deuteronomy 18:18

Didn't Yahshua fit that description? Look at his genealogy as cited in the Book of Luke. He is a Jew! "A prophet like you from your brothers", means he would be a Hebrew man like Moses. Regarding having the Father's words put into his mouth, Yahshua said:

"I know that His commandment is eternal life; therefore the things I speak, I speak just as the Father has told Me." John 12:50

Yahshua is citing the source of eternal life which included his own because he was not immortal. He could not truly die for us if he wasn't but immortality has been given to him as a reward by the Father. Secondly he confirms who he is by saying that he speaks just as the Father has told him. So I believe Yahshua asks us the same question today. When Peter said, "The Messiah!" Mark 8:29, we should realize that Yahshua said Peter was correct! Attempting to add to or alter that answer based on later traditions and surmised doctrines will always be a mistake.
The Messiah=Son of God=King of Israel who will rule the earth from that Kingdom.