[Conservative til I die]

The audience was the whole world and that's why it was written. To think it was written as proof that God gave Peter special help is illogical. They all had seen and heard the same thing.

Not true. Per Matthew 16:13-15, only Peter said that Jesus was the Messiah (the statement that lead Jesus to call him the Rock). The others said John the Baptist, Jeremiah or another prophet.

[spunkets]

Re: The audience was the whole world and that's why it was written. To think it was written as proof that God gave Peter special help is illogical. They all had seen and heard the same thing.

"Not true. ...only Peter said that Jesus was the Messiah"

Well Peter figured it out. Some are better at thinking and getting the right answers than others.