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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Peter (Apostle living at the time of the New Testament)
A Galilean fisherman named Simon. Jesus renamed him Cephas, or Peter, which means rock. He became the most prominent of the twelve, and in Matthew it is his confession that Jesus is the Messiah the Gospel turns on.
A Galilean fisherman named Simon. Jesus renamed him Cephas, or Peter, which means rock. He became the most prominent of the twelve, and in Matthew it is his confession that Jesus is the Messiah the Gospel turns on.
Peter was a Galilean fisherman named Simon before Jesus renamed him Cephas, or Peter, meaning rock, and he became the most prominent of the twelve apostles, the first to confess Jesus as the Messiah and the one Jesus promised to build his church on. He also denied knowing Jesus three times the night of the crucifixion, exactly as Jesus had predicted, and was restored to leadership afterward in a pointed three-part exchange on the shore of Galilee. Peter preached the first Christian sermon at Pentecost, took the gospel to the first Gentile convert, and tradition holds he was crucified in Rome under Nero, upside down at his own request because he considered himself unworthy to die the same way as Jesus.
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- Matthew 4:18
- Matthew 8:14
- Matthew 10:2
- Matthew 14:28
- Matthew 14:29
- Matthew 15:15
- Matthew 16:16
- Matthew 16:18
- Matthew 16:22
- Matthew 16:23
- Matthew 17:1
- Matthew 17:4
- Matthew 17:24
- Matthew 18:21
- Matthew 19:27
- Matthew 26:33
- Matthew 26:35
- Matthew 26:37
- Matthew 26:40
- Matthew 26:58
- Matthew 26:69
- Matthew 26:73
- Matthew 26:75
- Mark 3:16
- Mark 5:37
- Mark 8:29
- Mark 8:32
- Mark 8:33
- Mark 9:2
- Mark 9:5
- Mark 10:28
- Mark 11:21
- Mark 13:3
- Mark 14:29
- Mark 14:33
- Mark 14:37
- Mark 14:54
- Mark 14:66
- Mark 14:67
- Mark 14:70
- Mark 14:72
- Mark 16:7
- Luke 5:8
- Luke 6:14
- Luke 8:45
- Luke 8:51
- Luke 9:20
- Luke 9:28
- Luke 9:32
- Luke 9:33
- Luke 12:41
- Luke 18:28
- Luke 22:8
- Luke 22:34
- Luke 22:54
- Luke 22:55
- Luke 22:58
- Luke 22:60
- Luke 22:61
- Luke 24:12
- John 1:40
- John 1:42
- John 1:44
- John 6:8
- John 6:68
- John 13:6
- John 13:8
- John 13:9
- John 13:24
- John 13:36
- John 13:37
- John 18:10
- John 18:11
- John 18:15
- John 18:16
- John 18:17
- John 18:18
- John 18:25
- John 18:26
- John 18:27
- John 20:2
- John 20:3
- John 20:4
- John 20:6
- John 21:2
- John 21:3
- John 21:7
- John 21:11
- John 21:15
- John 21:17
- John 21:20
- John 21:21
- Acts 1:13
- Acts 1:15
- Acts 2:14
- Acts 2:37
- Acts 2:38
- Acts 3:1
- Acts 3:3
- Acts 3:4
- Acts 3:6
- Acts 3:11
- Acts 3:12
- Acts 4:8
- Acts 4:13
- Acts 4:19
- Acts 5:3
- Acts 5:8
- Acts 5:9
- Acts 5:15
- Acts 5:29
- Acts 8:14
- Acts 8:20
- Acts 9:32
- Acts 9:34
- Acts 9:38
- Acts 9:39
- Acts 9:40
- Acts 10:5
- Acts 10:9
- Acts 10:13
- Acts 10:14
- Acts 10:17
- Acts 10:18
- Acts 10:19
- Acts 10:21
- Acts 10:25
- Acts 10:26
- Acts 10:32
- Acts 10:34
- Acts 10:44
- Acts 10:45
- Acts 10:46
- Acts 11:2
- Acts 11:4
- Acts 11:7
- Acts 11:13
- Acts 12:3
- Acts 12:5
- Acts 12:6
- Acts 12:7
- Acts 12:11
- Acts 12:14
- Acts 12:16
- Acts 12:18
- Acts 15:7
- Galatians 2:7
- Galatians 2:8
- 1 Peter 1:1
- 2 Peter 1:1
