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| Saint Peter the Apostle |
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West: Prince of the Apostles, First pope
East: Pre-eminent Apostle |
| Born |
c. 1 BC, Bethsaida |
| Died |
AD 67, Rome, by crucifixion |
| Venerated in |
Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church, Anglican Communion, Lutheranism, Oriental Orthodoxy |
| Major shrine |
St. Peter's Basilica |
| Feast |
main feast (with Paul of Tarsus) 29 June (Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church, Oriental Orthodoxy, Anglicanism, Lutheranism)
Chair of St Peter in Rome 18 January (Pre-1960 Roman Calendar)
Confession of St Peter 18 January (Anglicanism)
Chair of St Peter 22 February (Roman Catholic Church)
St Peter in Chains 1 August (pre-1960 Roman Calendar) |
| Attributes |
.^ Origen says: "Peter was crucified at Rome with his head downwards, as he himself had desired to suffer".- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
Iconographically, he is depicted with a bushy white beard and white hair |
| Patronage |
See St. Peter's Patronage |
.^ Aramaic name Cephas by Jesus or the early church; the name means "rock" and is translated into Greek as Peter.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Jesus announced that Simon would be called Cephas, which is the Aramaic word that equals the Greek word Petros from which Peter comes.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Jesus changed his name from Simon to Peter, which meant rock.- Peter: Saint and Sinner 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.gracevalley.org [Source type: Original source]
.^ Aramaic name Cephas by Jesus or the early church; the name means "rock" and is translated into Greek as Peter.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
^ The Christian community of Antioch was founded by Christianized Jews who had been driven from Jerusalem by the persecution (Acts 11:19 sqq.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
^ To the people crowding in amazement about the two Apostles, he preaches a long sermon in the Porch of Solomon, and brings new increase to the flock of believers (Acts 3:1-4:4).- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ We next read of our Lord's singular interview with Peter on the shores of the Sea of Galilee, where he thrice asked him, "Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me?"- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Life The divinely-blessed Peter was from Bethsaida of Galilee.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
^ And finally, at a time of great restoration, Jesus met Peter on the shores of the Sea of Galilee and asked him, "Simon, son of John, do you truly love me more than these?"- Peter: Saint and Sinner 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.gracevalley.org [Source type: Original source]
.^ And when day broke, he summoned his disciples; and from these he chose twelve (whom he also named apostles): Simon, whom he named Peter, and his brother Andrew, James and John...
^ The Apostle Andrew was his brother, and the Apostle Philip came from the same town.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ They claimed that St. Mark was one of those who accepted the faith by St. Peter after the receiving of the Holy Spirit at the beginning of Christianity.- SAINT MARK THE EVANGELIST 20 September 2009 11:27 UTC tasbeha.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The Christian community of Antioch was founded by Christianized Jews who had been driven from Jerusalem by the persecution (Acts 11:19 sqq.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
^ SOME OF ITS DISTINGUISHED SCHOLARS AND PHILOSOPHERS Athenaghoras was one of the most eminent among them, who defended Christianity and its apologists.- SAINT MARK THE EVANGELIST 20 September 2009 11:27 UTC tasbeha.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
), in
.^ The first begins with greetings "to the sojourners of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia and Bithynia."
^ After leaving Antioch, where he spent a considerable amount of time, Peter traveled through the provinces of Pontus, Galatians, Cappadocia, Asia and Bithynia, districts of present-day Turkey.
^ 'Apocrypha' rescues the situation by sending Peter into Syria, Cappadocia, Pontus and beyond.- "Saint Peter" – Fabricated Apostolic commander-in-chief 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.jesusneverexisted.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ The narratives contained in the apocryphal literature of the second century concerning the supposed strife between Peter and Simon Magus belong to the domain of legend.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Fantasies of this ilk had to suffice, allowing the tradition to emerge that Peter not only met his death in the city (at the hands of Nero) but also (a mutually exclusive proposition!- "Saint Peter" – Fabricated Apostolic commander-in-chief 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.jesusneverexisted.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Later he wrote two Epistles to the faithful of these Christian communities of Asia Minor.
^ Mark was with St. Peter when he wrote his first epistle and he wrote, "The church that is Babylon, elected together with you salutes you and so does Marcus my son."- SAINT MARK THE EVANGELIST 20 September 2009 11:27 UTC tasbeha.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ (Philemon 24) Again St. Paul wrote from Rome in his second epistle to his disciple St.Timothy, "Only Luke is with me.- SAINT MARK THE EVANGELIST 20 September 2009 11:27 UTC tasbeha.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ When we read his Gospel we say , "From the Book of St. Mark the preacher and the pure disciple" He is always mentioned as a disciple and an apostle of God.- SAINT MARK THE EVANGELIST 20 September 2009 11:27 UTC tasbeha.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ [Mark 10 : 17 - 30] THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. MARK BELONGS TO ST. MARK Some of the Westerners tried to claim that the Gospel written by St. Mark was dictated to him by St. Peter, discrediting him of that honor.- SAINT MARK THE EVANGELIST 20 September 2009 11:27 UTC tasbeha.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ [Mark 1 : 45] and how he had disciples who came after Him and followed.- SAINT MARK THE EVANGELIST 20 September 2009 11:27 UTC tasbeha.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ On the other hand, St. Mark wrote his Book to the Gentiles with very limited little reference to the Old Testament compared to Matthew's and Luke's.- SAINT MARK THE EVANGELIST 20 September 2009 11:27 UTC tasbeha.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ [Acts 12 : 12] It may be possible that Mark had accompanied his relative in his preaching in Jerusalem and 'Beth-Ania' and other Jewish places as was mentioned by Severus Ibn Al Mokafaa in his book "the History of the Patriarchs".- SAINT MARK THE EVANGELIST 20 September 2009 11:27 UTC tasbeha.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ He also retained connection with the other Christian communities in Palestine, and preached the Gospel both there and in the lands situated farther north.- CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Peter, Prince of the Apostles 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.newadvent.org [Source type: Original source]
- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
[2][3] [4]
.^ Christ Himself unmistakably accords Peter a special precedence and the first place among the Apostles , and designates him for such on various occasions.- CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Peter, Prince of the Apostles 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.newadvent.org [Source type: Original source]
^ Their chosen hero figure was Peter, first of the apostles. Why did Rome need to make a saint out of Peter?- "Saint Peter" – Fabricated Apostolic commander-in-chief 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.jesusneverexisted.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Imagine the pleading and petitioning in this very important decision by Christ in the selection of His first twelve apostles.
.^ Peter, along with James and John, witnessed the Transfiguration of Jesus (Matthew 17:19).- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Only a few weeks after this, then, Christ chose these four men, together with eight others, as His apostles.
^ Did Christ mean only that flock which pressed around Peter during the apostle's own lifetime?
.^ Peter had to learn much about forgiveness, without any limits, and humility, as all Christians must, if they are to extend the Church of God as Peter did.
^ The liturgy and Christian art from the first century down to the present day emphasize the friendship between Peter and Paul.
^ The events of that day "completed the change in Peter himself which the painful discipline of his fall and all the lengthened process of previous training had been slowly making.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
Names and etymologies
.^ Aramaic name Cephas by Jesus or the early church; the name means "rock" and is translated into Greek as Peter.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Jesus changed his name from Simon to Peter, which meant rock.- Peter: Saint and Sinner 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.gracevalley.org [Source type: Original source]
^ Primacy of Peter Peter was called Simon, a very common name among the Jews.
New Testament account
Ruins of ancient
Capernaum on north side of the
Sea of Galilee. An Orthodox church is built on top of traditional site of Apostle Peter's house.
.^ To such an extent are Peter's discourses centered around Jesus that, if the Pauline Epistles or even the Gospels were lost, one could reconstruct the life of our Lord from these simple and plain speeches.
^ Succession of Peter's Primacy The death of St. Peter raised the question of the permanence of his office on the Church.
^ Peter in the Acts of the Apostles Books have been written about the apostle Peter which present information gathered exclusively from the Gospels.
.^ We are called 'Watchmen on the Wall' which God always had during the Old / New Testament Times.- International Social Pulse - October 2003 22 September 2009 13:40 UTC www.cephas-library.com [Source type: News]
^ In the New Testament, Peter is called at first only Simon, then gradually Simon Peter, then Peter alone.
^ He had a younger brother called Andrew, who first brought him to Jesus (John 1:40-42).- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ That he might the better fulfill the trust reposed in him by the Holy Father, and worthily carry out his commission, Peter first consulted the archbishop of Florence on the affair.- Saint Peter Martyr of Verona 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.domcentral.org [Source type: Original source]
^ It is consoling to know for us sinners that Peter misunderstood Jesus' gift to him.
^ We are grateful to the Saint whose name was given to the first church in our country, where his body was buried and after him our Patriarchs were chosen.- SAINT MARK THE EVANGELIST 20 September 2009 11:27 UTC tasbeha.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ And Solov’ev bows down before the Peter of the Catholic Church, before the Roman first-priest, before the active-militant hierarchic order of the West.- Problem of East and West in Religious Consciousness of Vl Solov'ev 20 September 2009 11:27 UTC berdyaev.com [Source type: Original source]
^ The Acts of the Apostles, especially the first eleven chapters, have also been referred to as the "Acts of Peter".
^ Advanced Information Peter's primacy or leadership among the twelve apostles and in the primitive church is now generally accepted by Protestant and Catholic scholars alike.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
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.^ Originally from Bethsaida of Galilee where he and his brother Andrew were in the fishing business, he also had a home in Capernaum.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
[Jn. 1:44] .^ Simon, son of John, do you love me?If you love Me, then feed My flock!
^ And when day broke, he summoned his disciples; and from these he chose twelve (whom he also named apostles): Simon, whom he named Peter, and his brother Andrew, James and John...
^ Simon, son of John, do you love Me more than these others do?
[6] .
.^ Who was this fisherman, Simon Peter?
^ An Ethiopic "Acts of Peter" even goes into detail, falsely maintaining that Peter installed Simon, the son of Cleophas, in Jerusalem and Bartholomew in the "Oasis"; Andrew he sent to Greece and Philip to Africa; James and Thomas were appointed to India; Jude Thaddeus was given a domain in Syria; and John had his province in Ephesus.
^ We next read of our Lord's singular interview with Peter on the shores of the Sea of Galilee, where he thrice asked him, "Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me?"- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Now Peter was to fish for and catch men.
^ Perhaps Peter belonged to the group following John the Baptist, as did the other apostles, Andrew, John, and probably even Philip.
^ To such an extent are Peter's discourses centered around Jesus that, if the Pauline Epistles or even the Gospels were lost, one could reconstruct the life of our Lord from these simple and plain speeches.
.^ Who was this fisherman, Simon Peter?
^ On several occasions also Christ favoured him above all the others; He enters Peter's boat on Lake Genesareth to preach to the multitude on the shore (Luke 5:3); when He was miraculously walking upon the waters, He called Peter to come to Him across the lake (Matthew 14:28 sqq.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
^ St Peter said that it is noble to announce the praises of Him who called us out of darkness into His wonderful light in His own inimitable manner.
[Lk. 5:3] .^ They enclosed a great number of fishes, but their net was breaking.
^ "'Put out into the deep, and lower your nets for a catch,'" He ordered.
^ And when day broke, he summoned his disciples; and from these he chose twelve (whom he also named apostles): Simon, whom he named Peter, and his brother Andrew, James and John...
.^ His disciples had left Him, asked the Twelve if they too should leave Him; Peter's answer comes immediately: "Lord to whom shall we go?- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
^ [Mark 6 : 32 - 34] Many people followed him, [Mark 5 : 24] " And all the people, when they beheld Him, were greatly amazed and running to Him saluted Him.- SAINT MARK THE EVANGELIST 20 September 2009 11:27 UTC tasbeha.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ They followed Him and even invited Him to their homes, just to watch and were ready to catch a wrong of Him.- SAINT MARK THE EVANGELIST 20 September 2009 11:27 UTC tasbeha.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[Lk. 5:4–11]
.^ Compared with the Pauline Epistles, or even the Gospel of St. John, the sermons of Peter are simple; but they are no poorer in content.
[Jn. 1:35–42] .^ Andrew and John hearing it, followed Jesus, and abode with him where he was.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
^ His brother Andrew, who introduced him to Jesus, had been a disciple of John the Baptist (John 1:35ff.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
^ When, after the High Council had sent envoys for the second time to the Baptist, the latter pointed to Jesus who was passing, saying, "Behold the Lamb of God", Andrew and another disciple followed the Saviour to his residence and remained with Him one day.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
Andrew then went and fetched his brother Simon, saying, "We have found the Messiah," and then brought Simon to Jesus.
The "Rock" dialogue
.^ While journeying along with His Apostles, Jesus asks them: "Whom do men say that the Son of man is?"- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
^ His disciples had left Him, asked the Twelve if they too should leave Him; Peter's answer comes immediately: "Lord to whom shall we go?- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
^ We expect to be raptured in a pretribulation Rapture to live with God the Father, God His Son Jesus Christ and God the Holy Spirit, who are ONE GOD in three persons, forever.- International Social Pulse - October 2003 22 September 2009 13:40 UTC www.cephas-library.com [Source type: News]
.^ When Hans Kung, who has suffered directly at this guy's hands, says give him a chance, he's probably got a better insight than you on the topic.
.^ Simon said: "Thou art Christ, the Son of the living God".- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Mark was with St. Peter when he wrote his first epistle and he wrote, "The church that is Babylon, elected together with you salutes you and so does Marcus my son."- SAINT MARK THE EVANGELIST 20 September 2009 11:27 UTC tasbeha.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ We next read of our Lord's singular interview with Peter on the shores of the Sea of Galilee, where he thrice asked him, "Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me?"- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Life The divinely-blessed Peter was from Bethsaida of Galilee.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Very characteristic is the expression of true fidelity to Jesus, which Peter addressed to Him in the name of the other Apostles.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Still it was only six verses before this that the same Jesus called Peter blessed.
.^ The Lord makes it clear that Peter is not the rock on which he will build his church.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Jesus said: "Upon this rock I will build my Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it."
^ The truth Peter confessed is the solid rock on which Jesus builds his church.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ There are even those who would interpret Paul's remark as evidence and proof against the primacy of Peter.
^ And Peter was the one who stood up at the council of the apostles, the first Church Council in Jerusalem, and interpreted and explained the Law of Moses as it applied to the Gentiles: .
.^ And then Jesus and Peter stood next to each other for the first time.
^ The first time that happened was after Pope Simon I. The seat was empty for three years and nine months.- SAINT MARK THE EVANGELIST 20 September 2009 11:27 UTC tasbeha.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ They claimed that St. Mark was one of those who accepted the faith by St. Peter after the receiving of the Holy Spirit at the beginning of Christianity.- SAINT MARK THE EVANGELIST 20 September 2009 11:27 UTC tasbeha.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
In light of the Easter event, then, Peter became an exemplar of the forgiven sinner.
[7] .^ Jesus announced to Peter that he was giving him the keys to bind and loose sins (Matthew 16:19).- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
^ One of the first miracles of Jesus was the curing of Peter's mother-in-law, who was ill with "a great fever," as Luke, the doctor, diagnosed it in his Gospel.
.^ If Christ made Simon Peter the cornerstone of His Church-and indeed He did-then did He not intend the completed structure to remain a permanent establishment?
^ It is profoundly symbolic that Peter had to suffer for the growth of the young Christian community and its formation into the universal Church.
^ It rises above the relics of this apostle with a thrilling exultation, a worthy monument of this sovereign of the early Christian world.
.^ Advanced Information Peter's primacy or leadership among the twelve apostles and in the primitive church is now generally accepted by Protestant and Catholic scholars alike.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
^ And foremost of all he wanted a formal co-subjugation of the Church to an Orthodox pope, a vicar of Peter.- Problem of East and West in Religious Consciousness of Vl Solov'ev 20 September 2009 11:27 UTC berdyaev.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Naively they narrate how Peter supposedly established a different province and separate office of the Church for each apostle.
.^ By the word "rock" the Saviour cannot have meant Himself, but only Peter, as is so much more apparent in Aramaic in which the same word (Kipha) is used for "Peter" and "rock".- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Petra means a rocky cliff or a ledge of rock.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ He thus makes use of the universally known and recognized fact of the Apostolic activity of Peter and Paul in Rome, to find therein a proof from tradition against the heretics.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ So died in defense of the Church the great Peter Martyr, a most faithful follower of our Lord as well as a man of profound learning.- Saint Peter Martyr of Verona 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.domcentral.org [Source type: Original source]
^ The composer and sender introduced himself in the first lines as Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained an equal privilege of faith with ourselves through the justice of our God and savior Jesus Christ.
^ Not merely Peters belief is the rock foundation, but Peter himself!
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Position among the apostles
Church of the Primacy of St. Peter on the
Sea of Galilee. Traditional site where
Jesus Christ appeared to his disciples after his resurrection and, according to Catholic tradition, established Peter's supreme jurisdiction over the Christian church.
.^ From the already mentioned statements regarding the origin of the Gospel of St. Mark we may conclude that Peter laboured for a long period in Rome.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
^ When we read his Gospel we say , "From the Book of St. Mark the preacher and the pure disciple" He is always mentioned as a disciple and an apostle of God.- SAINT MARK THE EVANGELIST 20 September 2009 11:27 UTC tasbeha.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ From these pages we see the personality of Peter whereas the Gospel only mentioned what he did.
[10] .^ Perhaps Peter belonged to the group following John the Baptist, as did the other apostles, Andrew, John, and probably even Philip.
^ Peter in the Acts of the Apostles Books have been written about the apostle Peter which present information gathered exclusively from the Gospels.
^ The holy, glorious and all-laudable Apostle Peter is the leader of the twelve apostles of Jesus Christ.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Peter first confessed that Jesus was the Messiah (Mark 8:29; Matt.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
^ He is the one who led their forefathers to accept the faith and to confess that Jesus Christ is the Savior, and the Son of God.- SAINT MARK THE EVANGELIST 20 September 2009 11:27 UTC tasbeha.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Peter in the Acts of the Apostles Books have been written about the apostle Peter which present information gathered exclusively from the Gospels.
^ What happened at this time was precisely what often happened, when the apostles preached the Gospel of Christ to the gentiles, confirming its truth by striking miracles.- Saint Peter Martyr of Verona 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.domcentral.org [Source type: Original source]
^ The holy, glorious and all-laudable Apostle Peter is the leader of the twelve apostles of Jesus Christ.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ The Coptic Catholics praise him in their own Theotokion, (4) saying "O the evangelist, the apostle, the theologian.evangelist, the apostle, you were awarded the crown of being an apostle, your fellow apostles were proud of you and we are proud of them and you."- SAINT MARK THE EVANGELIST 20 September 2009 11:27 UTC tasbeha.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ DID HE PREACH WITH HIM IN ROME? It was proven in the history of the church and recorded in both the Orthodox and the Catholic books, even the Holy Bible, that Mark the apostle did preach in Rome.- SAINT MARK THE EVANGELIST 20 September 2009 11:27 UTC tasbeha.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The Catholic Jesuit, Father Frermaj reported in his book "Moraweg Al Akhyar" referring to St. Mark, that " God blessed him for his unique enthusiasm.- SAINT MARK THE EVANGELIST 20 September 2009 11:27 UTC tasbeha.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[13][14] .^ Perhaps Peter belonged to the group following John the Baptist, as did the other apostles, Andrew, John, and probably even Philip.
^ See the video of this litter lout and some of the other Litter Louts we have filmed here in St Peters, Highfields, Leicester .- St Peters Highfields Neighbourhood Monitoring - Leicester (Formerly a Leicester Neighbourhood Management Board) 6 February 2010 13:30 UTC stpetersnm.com [Source type: General]
^ Later sources say that Peter went to Rome, was martyred (64-68) under Nero, and buried on Vatican Hill.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ As the principal opponents of his views in this connexion, Paul names and combats in all his writings only the extreme Jewish Christians coming "from James" (i.e., from Jerusalem).- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
[15] .^ AUTHORS: McCarthy, James Some defenders of the Roman Catholic Church argue that the Roman Catholic Magisterium is the rightful interpreter and authoritative teacher of Scripture, because the Church gave Christianity the Bible.- ATRI Journal Online Article Index 20 September 2009 11:27 UTC www.johnankerberg.org [Source type: Original source]
^ And we are witnesses of all that he did in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem; and yet they killed him, hanging him on a tree.
^ His prayers, his penances, and the example of Christian charity that he gave at all times were even more efficacious means to these ends.- Saint Peter Martyr of Verona 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.domcentral.org [Source type: Original source]
The early Church historian
Eusebius (c AD 325) records
Clement of Alexandria (c AD 190) as saying,
"For they say that Peter and
James and
John after the ascension of our Saviour, as if also preferred by our Lord, strove not after honor, but chose
James the Just bishop of Jerusalem."
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.^ Just as the preaching of Christ was very chose to the heart of the St. Paul, so was the Resurrection of Christ to Peter.
^ Did Matthew by chance exaggerate when he wrote about Peter just to make him appear more brilliant than Paul?
^ "During the persecution of Emperor Valerian, around the year 258, the mortal remains of the apostle Peter were removed to a place of interment in the Vatican hill, just as the remains of the apostles Paul were taken to the road to Ostia for protection.
Walking on water
.^ Peter, along with James and John, witnessed the Transfiguration of Jesus (Matthew 17:19).- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Peter was allowed to join Jesus and he walked on water until he was distracted (Matthew 14:29).- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
^ The second instance recounted in this part of the Gospel took place on the night after Jesus miraculously fed a crowd of five thousand people.
.^ Peter was allowed to join Jesus and he walked on water until he was distracted (Matthew 14:29).- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Then Peter got out of the boast and walked on the water to come to Jesus.
^ Is this support and strengthening of the others in their faith not the very same thing that Matthew expressed when he wrote, Thou are Peter, the rock?
[Matt. 14:28–31]
Washing of feet
.^ The Lord washed His Disciple's feet in his house.- SAINT MARK THE EVANGELIST 20 September 2009 11:27 UTC tasbeha.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Of the Twelve at the Last Supper, Peter was the first to have his feet washed by our Lord.
^ Peter saw following them the disciple whom Jesus loved, the one who, at supper, had leaned back upon his breast and said, "Lord, who is it that will betray thee?"
Peter initially refused to let Jesus wash his feet, but when Jesus responded: "If I wash thee not, thou hast no part with me", Peter replied: "Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head".
[Jn. 13:2-11] The washing of feet is often repeated in the service of worship on Maundy Thursday by some Christian denominations.
Arrest of Jesus
Apostle Peter striking Malchus
.^ He struck the servant of the high priest, and cut off his ear-the right ear, as Luke, the exacting doctor, did not forget to mention.
^ Under a sudden impulse he cut off the ear of Malchus (47-51), one of the band that had come forth to take Jesus.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
^ We expect to be raptured in a pretribulation Rapture to live with God the Father, God His Son Jesus Christ and God the Holy Spirit, who are ONE GOD in three persons, forever.- International Social Pulse - October 2003 22 September 2009 13:40 UTC www.cephas-library.com [Source type: News]
[17] .^ And when day broke, he summoned his disciples; and from these he chose twelve (whom he also named apostles): Simon, whom he named Peter, and his brother Andrew, James and John...
^ John baptized in the Jordan and that with which Peter baptized in the Tiber"; and against Marcion he appeals to the testimony of the Roman Christians, "to whom Peter and Paul have bequeathed the Gospel sealed with their blood" (Adv.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
^ The calling of the first four apostles, Peter, Andrew, James, and John, is related by Luke at the same time he relates the events surrounding this miraculous catch of fish.
[Jn. 18:10] Luke adds that Jesus touched the ear and miraculously healed it.[Lk. 22:50]
Denial of Jesus
.^ Three times Jesus asked Simon whether he loved Him.
^ Jesus then responded by telling Peter that he would deny Jesus three times before the rooster had crowed twice.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Peter represented all the disciples when Jesus spoke to him.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
The three Synoptics and John describe the three denials as follows:
.^ The composer and sender introduced himself in the first lines as Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained an equal privilege of faith with ourselves through the justice of our God and savior Jesus Christ.
^ Jesus is saying that there is something about Peter and the confession he just made that Jesus would use in building his church.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Then Jesus took Peter off to the side, Once again they stood face to face, as they did on the Jordan, as they did a few weeks before in the courtyard of the high priest.
.^ Jesus told Peter to feed His sheep.
^ He at first took to flight with the other Apostles (John 18:10-11; Matthew 26:56); then turning he followed his captured Lord to the courtyard of the High Priest, and there denied Christ, asserting explicitly and swearing that he knew Him not (Matthew 26:58-75; Mark 14:54-72; Luke 22:54-62; John 18:15-27).- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
^ This website was designed for St Peters by St Peters Neighbourhood Management Board comprised of residents and people from other agencies who have a stake in St Peters.- St Peters Highfields Neighbourhood Monitoring - Leicester (Formerly a Leicester Neighbourhood Management Board) 6 February 2010 13:30 UTC stpetersnm.com [Source type: General]
.^ Jesus then responded by telling Peter that he would deny Jesus three times before the rooster had crowed twice.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
^ The resurrected Jesus subtly reminded Peter that he had denied His Master three times during his trial and that is why He asked Peter three times if he truly loved Him now.
^ Peter represented all the disciples when Jesus spoke to him.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
According to Matthew, Mark and Luke, "the rooster crowed". For John, though, this is the second denial, and he does not mention the Galilean accent.
Matthew adds that it was his
accent that gave him away as coming from Galilee.
.^ The French Encyclopedia, with its Catholic publishers, stated, "The claim that Mark was a disciple of Peter was nothing other than stupidity based on some failed writers."- SAINT MARK THE EVANGELIST 20 September 2009 11:27 UTC tasbeha.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Luke explicitly stated that the Lord appeared to Peter, to Peter alone, before He appeared to the other apostles.
^ Then Jesus said to Simon Peter, Simon, son of John, dost thou love more than these do?
.^ After that, a solemn procession in honor of the event was held in Florence every year on Saint Peter's Day; and on this occasion the same standard was carried which the martyr had placed in the.- Saint Peter Martyr of Verona 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.domcentral.org [Source type: Original source]
^ Shortly thereafter he sat calmly and warmed himself by the fire and denied that he had ever known Christ.
^ It is consoling to know for us sinners that Peter misunderstood Jesus' gift to him.
.^ Where would you like to go?- Shared Top Border 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.res99.com [Source type: News]
^ The holy, glorious and all-laudable Apostle Peter is the leader of the twelve apostles of Jesus Christ.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Peter becomes Head of the Apostles In especially solemn fashion Christ accentuated Peter's precedence among the Apostles, when, after Peter had recognized Him as the Messias, He promised that he would be head of His flock.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Three times Jesus asked Simon whether he loved Him.
^ John records that it was Peter (John 18:10).- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Peter, along with James and John, witnessed the Transfiguration of Jesus (Matthew 17:19).- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
Empty tomb
.^ And Solov’ev bows down before the Peter of the Catholic Church, before the Roman first-priest, before the active-militant hierarchic order of the West.- Problem of East and West in Religious Consciousness of Vl Solov'ev 20 September 2009 11:27 UTC berdyaev.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Already on Easter morning Christ had sent the women who were at the tomb specifically to Peter with a message for him.
^ That the manner, and therefore the place of his death, must have been known in widely extended Christian circles at the end of the first century is clear from the remark introduced into the Gospel of St. John concerning Christ's prophecy that Peter was bound to Him and would be led whither he would not - "And this he said, signifying by what death he should glorify God" (John 21:18-19, see above).- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
[Jn. 20:1–9] .^ They claimed that St. Mark was one of those who accepted the faith by St. Peter after the receiving of the Holy Spirit at the beginning of Christianity.- SAINT MARK THE EVANGELIST 20 September 2009 11:27 UTC tasbeha.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Already on Easter morning Christ had sent the women who were at the tomb specifically to Peter with a message for him.
^ The composer and sender introduced himself in the first lines as Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained an equal privilege of faith with ourselves through the justice of our God and savior Jesus Christ.
In fact, he runs to the tomb. After seeing the graveclothes he goes home, apparently without informing the other disciples.[Lk. 24:1–12]
Resurrection appearances
.^ Mark was with St. Peter when he wrote his first epistle and he wrote, "The church that is Babylon, elected together with you salutes you and so does Marcus my son."- SAINT MARK THE EVANGELIST 20 September 2009 11:27 UTC tasbeha.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The contents and form of the second Epistle of St. Peter differ considerable from the first.
^ The resurrected Jesus subtly reminded Peter that he had denied His Master three times during his trial and that is why He asked Peter three times if he truly loved Him now.
[20] .^ Here Paul and Peter met again.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
^ If Christ made Simon Peter the cornerstone of His Church-and indeed He did-then did He not intend the completed structure to remain a permanent establishment?
^ Perhaps Peter belonged to the group following John the Baptist, as did the other apostles, Andrew, John, and probably even Philip.
[21]
.^ Three times Jesus asked Simon whether he loved Him.
^ To such an extent are Peter's discourses centered around Jesus that, if the Pauline Epistles or even the Gospels were lost, one could reconstruct the life of our Lord from these simple and plain speeches.
^ We expect to be raptured in a pretribulation Rapture to live with God the Father, God His Son Jesus Christ and God the Holy Spirit, who are ONE GOD in three persons, forever.- International Social Pulse - October 2003 22 September 2009 13:40 UTC www.cephas-library.com [Source type: News]
[Jn. 21:15–17] Some scholars hypothesize that it was added later to bolster Peter's status.[22]
Role in the early church
.^ Peter delivered the first public sermon on the first Pentecost.
^ After the descent of the Holy Ghost on the feast of Pentecost, Peter standing at the head of the Apostles delivers the first public sermon to proclaim the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus, and wins a large number of Jews as converts to the Christian community (Acts 2:14-41).- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
^ At all the important turning-points of the apostolic Church Peter was there to bind and to loose, to close and to open.
.^ Perhaps this day was selected to replace the heathen festivities which took place on 1 August.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
^ In his first discourse, when speaking to the apostles about choosing another apostle to replace the betrayer Judas, he saw in the incident a fulfillment of a prophecy from the Book of Psalms.
^ According to this same tradition the two separated in Sinope, Peter traveling to the West, Andrew traveling to the East.
[Acts 1:15] He was twice arraigned, with John, before the Sanhedrin and directly defied them.[Acts 4:7–22] [5:18–42] He undertook a missionary journey to Lydda, Joppa and Caesarea,[9:32–10:2] becoming instrumental in the decision to evangelise the Gentiles.[10]
.^ The Acts of the Apostles, especially the first eleven chapters, have also been referred to as the "Acts of Peter".
^ To the people crowding in amazement about the two Apostles, he preaches a long sermon in the Porch of Solomon, and brings new increase to the flock of believers (Acts 3:1-4:4).- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Peter in the Acts of the Apostles Books have been written about the apostle Peter which present information gathered exclusively from the Gospels.
John Vidmar writes:
.^ Do Protestants and Catholics agree on what constitutes Scripture?- ATRI Journal Online Article Index 20 September 2009 11:27 UTC www.johnankerberg.org [Source type: Original source]
^ Perhaps Peter belonged to the group following John the Baptist, as did the other apostles, Andrew, John, and probably even Philip.
^ Advanced Information Peter's primacy or leadership among the twelve apostles and in the primitive church is now generally accepted by Protestant and Catholic scholars alike.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ During his Apostolic journeys outside Palestine, he recognized in practice the equality of Gentile and Jewish converts, as his original conduct at Antioch proves.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Had St. Paul not intervened, Peter's actions would have caused a disaster: the Christian Jews might have gone back to Judaism and the converting of the Gentiles would have been halted.
^ Throughout the Gospels there is the unwritten opinion that Peter was the spokesman and representative of the others.
[23]
Council of Jerusalem
.^ He seems to have gone down to Antioch after the council at Jerusalem, and there to have been guilty of dissembling, for which he was severely reprimanded by Paul (Gal.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
^ His aloofness from the Gentile converts, out of consideration for the Jewish Christians from Jerusalem, was by no means an official recognition of the views of the extreme Judaizers, who were so opposed to St. Paul.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Certainly he didn't come before the Council of Jerusalem which was about 50 AD, as agreed by all the historians.- SAINT MARK THE EVANGELIST 20 September 2009 11:27 UTC tasbeha.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ They claimed that St. Mark was one of those who accepted the faith by St. Peter after the receiving of the Holy Spirit at the beginning of Christianity.- SAINT MARK THE EVANGELIST 20 September 2009 11:27 UTC tasbeha.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The Christian community of Antioch was founded by Christianized Jews who had been driven from Jerusalem by the persecution (Acts 11:19 sqq.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
^ At the Jerusalem Council he urged the admission of Gentile converts without submission to the Mosaic law (Acts 15:7ff.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
[24]
Epistles
.^ The Acts of the Apostles, especially the first eleven chapters, have also been referred to as the "Acts of Peter".
^ Advanced Information Peter's primacy or leadership among the twelve apostles and in the primitive church is now generally accepted by Protestant and Catholic scholars alike.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Mark was the apostle and the preacher and the first bishop to their church.- SAINT MARK THE EVANGELIST 20 September 2009 11:27 UTC tasbeha.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ The Acts of the Apostles, especially the first eleven chapters, have also been referred to as the "Acts of Peter".
^ Mark was with St. Peter when he wrote his first epistle and he wrote, "The church that is Babylon, elected together with you salutes you and so does Marcus my son."- SAINT MARK THE EVANGELIST 20 September 2009 11:27 UTC tasbeha.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The first eleven chapters have sometimes been referred to as the Acts of Peter.
[24] .^ That he might the better fulfill the trust reposed in him by the Holy Father, and worthily carry out his commission, Peter first consulted the archbishop of Florence on the affair.- Saint Peter Martyr of Verona 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.domcentral.org [Source type: Original source]
^ The Lord had asked him, Peter, about love!
^ Jesus is saying that there is something about Peter and the confession he just made that Jesus would use in building his church.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ DID HE PREACH WITH HIM IN ROME? It was proven in the history of the church and recorded in both the Orthodox and the Catholic books, even the Holy Bible, that Mark the apostle did preach in Rome.- SAINT MARK THE EVANGELIST 20 September 2009 11:27 UTC tasbeha.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ They see in this conflict the expression and explosion of two opposing tendencies in the early Church.
^ Aramaic name Cephas by Jesus or the early church; the name means "rock" and is translated into Greek as Peter.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
[24]
Accounts outside the New Testament
.^ And Peter found himself between the two.
^ It was on Peter alone that the Church was founded.
^ Another testimony concerning the martyrdom of Peter and Paul is supplied by Clement of Rome in his Epistle to the Corinthians (written about A.D. 95-97), wherein he says (v): "Through zeal and cunning the greatest and most righteous supports [of the Church] have suffered persecution and been warred to death.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
[5]
Antioch and Corinth
Later accounts expand on the brief Biblical mention of his visit to
Antioch.
.^ Moraweg Al Akhyar book, [ He traveled with him to the blessed city of Rome and shared with him the effort,(10) also mentioned that when Peter left Rome for a long journey, he "ordered his dear disciple Mark to serve this church."- SAINT MARK THE EVANGELIST 20 September 2009 11:27 UTC tasbeha.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ From the already mentioned statements regarding the origin of the Gospel of St. Mark we may conclude that Peter laboured for a long period in Rome.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
^ During this exile from Rome, Peter made a journey to Jerusalem (49-50) to attend the first Church Council.
[25] .^ This historian Eusebius considered Peter the founder of Christianity in the community of Antioch.
[26] .^ This latter view would best explain the tradition referring the foundation of the Church of Antioch to St. Peter.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
^ And the incident itself at Antioch is much more a proof for the prominent position of Peter in the first years of the Church than it is against it.
.^ There was a Cephas party at Corinth (I Cor.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
[5]
Death
In the epilogue
[24] of the Gospel of John, Jesus hints at the death by which Peter would glorify God,
[Jn. 21:18–19] saying "'…when you are old you will stretch out your hands, and another will dress you and take you where you do not want to go.'" This is understood as a reference to Peter's crucifixion.[18]According to the 1911 Catholic Encyclopedia, St. Peter labored in Rome during the last portion of his life, and there ended his life by martyrdom.
[11] The death of St. Peter is attested to by
Tertullian at the end of the second century, and by
Origen in
Eusebius, Church History II.1. Origen says: "Peter was crucified at Rome with his head downwards, as he himself had desired to suffer".
[11]Status
St. Clement of Rome identifies Peter and Paul as the outstanding heroes of the faith.
[5] .^ Some even dared to call this Gospel, "Peter's memoir."- SAINT MARK THE EVANGELIST 20 September 2009 11:27 UTC tasbeha.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Advanced Information Peter's primacy or leadership among the twelve apostles and in the primitive church is now generally accepted by Protestant and Catholic scholars alike.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
^ They claimed that St. Mark was one of those who accepted the faith by St. Peter after the receiving of the Holy Spirit at the beginning of Christianity.- SAINT MARK THE EVANGELIST 20 September 2009 11:27 UTC tasbeha.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[5]
Martyrdom
Caravaggio's depiction of the crucifixion of Apostle Peter.
The mention in the
New Testament of the death of Peter says that Jesus indicated its form by saying: "You will stretch out your hands, and someone else will dress you and lead you where you do not want to go."
[27] Early church tradition (as indicated below) says Peter probably died by
crucifixion (with arms outstretched) at the time of the
Great Fire of Rome of the year 64.
Margherita Guarducci, who led the research leading to the rediscovery of Peter’s tomb in its last stages (1963–1968), concludes Peter died on October 13 A.D. 64 during the festivities on the occasion of the “dies imperii” of Emperor Nero. This took place three months after the disastrous fire that destroyed Rome for which the emperor wished to blame the Christians.
.^ He died for our sins, rose physically from the dead, and is coming back physically and visibly one day.- International Social Pulse - October 2003 22 September 2009 13:40 UTC www.cephas-library.com [Source type: News]
^ But, beloved, do not be ignorant of this one thing, that one day with the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
.^ The one who raised him to the throne, he slew his first wife, a stepsister, Octavia, and kicked to death his second wife, Poppea Sabina, a Roman matron.
.^ The apocryphal Acts of the Apostles go one step beyond Lukes historically true narration about Peters leadership.
Tradition also locates his burial place where the
Basilica of Saint Peter was later built, directly beneath the Basilica's high altar.
.^ A Jesuit education and a quarter-century as a professor and administrator at Saint Peter’s College have taught me much about the qualities that are necessary and important as we move through life, improving our own lives and the lives of those with us in the world.- Saint Peter's College Annual Report 2008 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC issuu.com [Source type: Academic]
^ Another testimony concerning the martyrdom of Peter and Paul is supplied by Clement of Rome in his Epistle to the Corinthians (written about A.D. 95-97), wherein he says (v): "Through zeal and cunning the greatest and most righteous supports [of the Church] have suffered persecution and been warred to death.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
^ We acted out scenes from our own lives: taking on too many activities and dealing with the pressures of college.- Saint Peter's Magazine Fall 2008 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC issuu.com [Source type: General]
.^ To Him, all in one and one in all, be honor and glory!
^ Even so, Christ was not preventing him from having full authority in His Church.
^ Just one more Pope, Peter The Last, and we can finally chuck the Church out.
The
apocryphal Acts of Peter is also thought to be the source for the tradition about the famous phrase "
Quo vadis, Domine?" (or "Pou Hupageis, Kurie?" which means, "Whither goest Thou, Master?").
.^ Jesus answered him, "To Rome to be crucified again."
^ As the story goes, Peter was imprisoned in Rome for nine months at the Mamertine Prison near the Forum.
^ Jesus then responded by telling Peter that he would deny Jesus three times before the rooster had crowed twice.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
On hearing this, Peter decided to return to the city to accept martyrdom. This story is commemorated in an
Annibale Carracci painting.
.^ MONASTERIES NAMED AFTER ST. MARK: There were three monasteries named after him, that do not exist at this time:- 1- The monastery which was known as The Subterranean, originally was the site of the present St. Mark Church in Alexandria.- SAINT MARK THE EVANGELIST 20 September 2009 11:27 UTC tasbeha.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ It dates back to 1935 AD. 23- St. Mark Church in Nazlet Beni Ahmad , near Minya.- SAINT MARK THE EVANGELIST 20 September 2009 11:27 UTC tasbeha.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ This house became a church in between 60 - 68 AD. When St. Mark was martyred, he was buried under this church.- SAINT MARK THE EVANGELIST 20 September 2009 11:27 UTC tasbeha.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Entirely inconsistent and in itself untenable is the position of Protestants who (like Schnitzer in recent times) assert that the primacy of the Roman bishops cannot be deduced from the precedence which Peter held among the Apostles.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
^ AUTHORS: Gendron, Mike Quoting from The Apostolic Digest, Mike Gendron shows how Roman Catholic Popes have offered ways of salvation other than that taught in the Bible.- ATRI Journal Online Article Index 20 September 2009 11:27 UTC www.johnankerberg.org [Source type: Original source]
^ He appeals to the apocryphal Acts of St. Peter, in which two Romans, Albinus and Agrippa, are mentioned as persecutors of the Apostles.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ A confirmation of the position accorded to Peter by Luke, in the Acts, is afforded by the testimony of St. Paul (Galatians 1:18-20).- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
^ The apocryphal Acts of the Apostles go one step beyond Lukes historically true narration about Peters leadership.
^ When I came to Saint Peter’s, Plan Your Legacy ‘HAVING THE OPPORTUNITY TO DISCUSS MY FAITH OPENLY AND ACT AS A LEADER FOR OTHERS FILLED A GAP THAT I’D BEEN FEELING.’ ] having the opportunity to discuss my faith openly and act as a leader for others filled a gap that I’d been feeling.- Saint Peter's Magazine Fall 2008 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC issuu.com [Source type: General]
Death, after crucifixion head down, is unlikely to be caused by
suffocation, the usual cause of death in ordinary crucifixion.
.^ As the story goes, Peter was imprisoned in Rome for nine months at the Mamertine Prison near the Forum.
^ Traditions mention a variety of places in which he preached, ending with Rome where he supposedly became the first bishop of Rome.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
^ At any rate the place of execution and burial of both were close together; St. Peter, who was executed on the Vatican, received also his burial there.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
In 1950, human bones were found buried underneath the altar of St. Peter's Basilica.
.^ They claimed that St. Mark was one of those who accepted the faith by St. Peter after the receiving of the Holy Spirit at the beginning of Christianity.- SAINT MARK THE EVANGELIST 20 September 2009 11:27 UTC tasbeha.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Though there are in God's people many bishops and many shepherds, Peter is thus appointed to rule in his own person those whom Christ also rules as the original ruler.
[28] .^ They claimed that St. Mark was one of those who accepted the faith by St. Peter after the receiving of the Holy Spirit at the beginning of Christianity.- SAINT MARK THE EVANGELIST 20 September 2009 11:27 UTC tasbeha.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ They attempted to credit all St. Mark's preaching, even that in Egypt and the Five Western Cities to St. Peter.- SAINT MARK THE EVANGELIST 20 September 2009 11:27 UTC tasbeha.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The French Encyclopedia, with its Catholic publishers, stated, "The claim that Mark was a disciple of Peter was nothing other than stupidity based on some failed writers."- SAINT MARK THE EVANGELIST 20 September 2009 11:27 UTC tasbeha.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[29] .^ Primacy of Peter Peter was called Simon, a very common name among the Jews.
^ Peter, along with James and John, witnessed the Transfiguration of Jesus (Matthew 17:19).- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Peter's family was very simple and His father's name was Jona, or John.
.^ He was buried on the Vatican Hill in Rome about the year 64 AD. Accurate research maintains that Peter's remains are buried beneath St Peter's Basilica.
^ [Mark 10 : 17 - 30] THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. MARK BELONGS TO ST. MARK Some of the Westerners tried to claim that the Gospel written by St. Mark was dictated to him by St. Peter, discrediting him of that honor.- SAINT MARK THE EVANGELIST 20 September 2009 11:27 UTC tasbeha.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The tropaion remained until the fourth century when Emperor Constantine had the basilica of St. Peter erected.
.^ At the beginning of the twentieth century, some repairs were done in the domes which took about ten years to complete.- SAINT MARK THE EVANGELIST 20 September 2009 11:27 UTC tasbeha.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Like Irenaeus, Tertullian appeals, in his writings against heretics, to the proof afforded by the Apostolic labours of Peter and Paul in Rome of the truth of ecclesiastical tradition.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Then the two great apostles St. Paul and St. Peter were killed and St. Mark returned to Alexandria.- SAINT MARK THE EVANGELIST 20 September 2009 11:27 UTC tasbeha.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Had St. Paul not intervened, Peter's actions would have caused a disaster: the Christian Jews might have gone back to Judaism and the converting of the Gentiles would have been halted.
.
[30]
Connection to Rome
- See also: First phase of papal supremacy
.^ Who was this fisherman, Simon Peter?
^ St Peter said that it is noble to announce the praises of Him who called us out of darkness into His wonderful light in His own inimitable manner.
^ In the mother church of all Christendom, St Peter's in Rome, there stands a statue of Simon Peter, magnificent and impressive, depicted in all his apostolic majesty and authority as the first shepherd of the Church, keeping watch down through the ages.
.^ Another testimony concerning the martyrdom of Peter and Paul is supplied by Clement of Rome in his Epistle to the Corinthians (written about A.D. 95-97), wherein he says (v): "Through zeal and cunning the greatest and most righteous supports [of the Church] have suffered persecution and been warred to death.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
^ He was buried on the Vatican Hill in Rome about the year 64 AD. Accurate research maintains that Peter's remains are buried beneath St Peter's Basilica.
^ Later sources say that Peter went to Rome, was martyred (64-68) under Nero, and buried on Vatican Hill.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
[5]
.^ The historical claim is that Peter died a martyr as the first bishop of Rome and passed to succeeding bishops there his office and primacy.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
^ There is no evidence that he was bishop of Rome or stayed long in the city.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
^ The essential fact is that Peter died at Rome: this constitutes the historical foundation of the claim of the Bishops of Rome to the Apostolic Primacy of Peter.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
[31] .^ Hans Kung has rejected entirely any scriptural basis for a Roman claim to primacy, whereas R. Brown, more cautiously, argues that the scriptural image of Peter's leadership and the Roman Church's early eminence together produce a "trajectory" from which Roman primacy is a defensible conclusion.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
^ The Roman Church enjoyed a certain preeminence very early (as evidenced, e.g., in I Clement 5; Ignatius, Rom.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
^ This conclusion is confirmed by the unanimous voice of tradition which, as early as the second half of the second century, designates the Prince of the Apostles the founder of the Roman Church.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
[32][33][34][35][36] .^ Protestants once vigorously attacked all stories about Peter's end, but the best evidence, as most scholars now agree, indicates that he in fact died a martyr in the time of Nero and that his cult originated very early in Rome, though Cullmann believes he was probably executed rather than buried at the present St. Peter's on the Vatican Hill.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Advanced Information Peter's primacy or leadership among the twelve apostles and in the primitive church is now generally accepted by Protestant and Catholic scholars alike.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
^ From the already mentioned statements regarding the origin of the Gospel of St. Mark we may conclude that Peter laboured for a long period in Rome.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ There is no evidence that he was bishop of Rome or stayed long in the city.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
^ There is no satisfactory evidence that he was ever at Rome.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
^ From the already mentioned statements regarding the origin of the Gospel of St. Mark we may conclude that Peter laboured for a long period in Rome.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
[39]
.^ One can hear the supplication in Peter's question.
^ New Testament documents assign Peter a variety of roles.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Another testimony concerning the martyrdom of Peter and Paul is supplied by Clement of Rome in his Epistle to the Corinthians (written about A.D. 95-97), wherein he says (v): "Through zeal and cunning the greatest and most righteous supports [of the Church] have suffered persecution and been warred to death.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
[39] The
Letter to the Romans attributed to St.
Ignatius of Antioch implies that Peter and Paul had special authority over the Roman church,
[5] telling the Roman Christians: "I do not command you, as Peter and Paul did" (ch. 4).
.^ The first Petrine Epislte has always been recognized as genuine and authentic; the second, however, did not achieve universal recognition until after the fourth century.
^ Irenaeus, Against Heresies 3.3), but down to the end of the second century Rome was always considered as founded by Peter and Paul, a tradition which never wholly disappeared.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Concerning the manner of Peter's death, we possess a tradition - attested to by Tertullian at the end of the second century (see above) and by Origen (in Eusebius, "Hist.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
[39]
.^ Irenaeus of Lyons, a native of Asia Minor and a disciple of Polycarp of Smyrna (a disciple of St. John), passed a considerable time in Rome shortly after the middle of the second century, and then proceeded to Lyons, where he became bishop in 177; he described the Roman Church as the most prominent and chief preserver of the Apostolic tradition, as "the greatest and most ancient church, known by all, founded and organized at Rome by the two most glorious Apostles, Peter and Paul" (Adv.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Later, perhaps on the building of the church over the graves on the Vatican and in the Via Ostiensis, the remains were restored to their former resting-place: Peter's to the Vatican Basilica and Paul's to the church on the Via Ostiensis.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Peter had anticipated and struck out against what Paul and John later were also to combat.
[40][41]
.^ Like Irenaeus, Tertullian appeals, in his writings against heretics, to the proof afforded by the Apostolic labours of Peter and Paul in Rome of the truth of ecclesiastical tradition.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
^ In "De Praescriptione", xxxv, he says: "If thou art near Italy, thou hast Rome where authority is ever within reach.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ How fortunate is this Church for which the Apostles have poured out their whole teaching with their blood, where Peter has emulated the Passion of the Lord, where Paul was crowned with the death of John" (scil.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Perhaps Peter belonged to the group following John the Baptist, as did the other apostles, Andrew, John, and probably even Philip.
^ Advanced Information Peter's primacy or leadership among the twelve apostles and in the primitive church is now generally accepted by Protestant and Catholic scholars alike.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Irenaeus, Against Heresies 3.3), but down to the end of the second century Rome was always considered as founded by Peter and Paul, a tradition which never wholly disappeared.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Concerning the manner of Peter's death, we possess a tradition - attested to by Tertullian at the end of the second century (see above) and by Origen (in Eusebius, "Hist.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
^ This conclusion is confirmed by the unanimous voice of tradition which, as early as the second half of the second century, designates the Prince of the Apostles the founder of the Roman Church.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
[5] .^ St Peter was pope for 34-37 years, 25 of them in Rome and in prison.
^ They lived together and both were martyred about the same time.
^ Peter and Paul on the same day, although the day was not the same in the East as in Rome.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
[5]
According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, there was a Christian community at Rome before either Peter or Paul arrived there:
- "Even on the Day of Pentecost, "Roman strangers" (advenœ Romani, Acts 2:10) were present at Jerusalem, and they surely must have carried the good news to their fellow-citizens at Rome ... according to the pseudo-Clementine Epistles, St. Barnabas was the first to preach the Gospel in the Eternal City."[43]
Non-canonical sayings of Peter
.^ Here we may say that the Gospel was Mark's and it wasn't dictated by Peter, but was from the filling of the Holy Spirit.- SAINT MARK THE EVANGELIST 20 September 2009 11:27 UTC tasbeha.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The two Epistles of Peter are ascribed to Peter, although the attribution is questioned.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
^ From the end of the sixth century this is replaced by the keys (usually two, but sometimes three), which henceforth became the attribute of Peter.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Jesus is saying that there is something about Peter and the confession he just made that Jesus would use in building his church.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
^ St Peter, the fisherman, pictured above with a huge key in his left hand was selected by Jesus Christ as the first appointed leader of the Church.
^ Peter first confessed that Jesus was the Messiah (Mark 8:29; Matt.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
[45] .^ It is consoling to know for us sinners that Peter misunderstood Jesus' gift to him.
^ The resurrected Jesus subtly reminded Peter that he had denied His Master three times during his trial and that is why He asked Peter three times if he truly loved Him now.
^ This is surprising, for one could expect Andrew, who was the one who took Peter to Jesus, or John, the most beloved of the Twelve, to be first on the lists.
[citation needed]
.^ It is consoling to know for us sinners that Peter misunderstood Jesus' gift to him.
^ Jesus is saying that there is something about Peter and the confession he just made that Jesus would use in building his church.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
[47]
.^ The Gospels make mention of the quiet brother of Peter, Andrew, whose honor it was to be called together with Peter by the Lord to an apostolic mission.
.^ OTHER PRAYERS IN THE LITURGY: a- For his intercession, we say, " Through the prayers of Beholder of God, the Evangelist, God forgive us our sins."- SAINT MARK THE EVANGELIST 20 September 2009 11:27 UTC tasbeha.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Peter and the other disciples did not have the power to determine whether sins were forgiven or not.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
^ But our Lord in return rebuked Peter, speaking to him in sterner words than he ever used to any other of his disciples (Matt.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
Are we to turn about and all listen to her? Did He prefer her to us?"
[48] In reply to this,
Levi says "Peter, you have always been hot tempered."
[49]
.^ Peter in the Acts of the Apostles Books have been written about the apostle Peter which present information gathered exclusively from the Gospels.
^ In the Book of Acts, it is mentioned that he worked with St. Paul and St. Barnabas the Apostles, but before that he worked with St. Peter in Jerusalem and Judea.- SAINT MARK THE EVANGELIST 20 September 2009 11:27 UTC tasbeha.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ [Mark 6 : 39, 40] Other examples in describing Christ when he slept in the ship on a pillow, or when He was transfigured before Peter, James and John saying, "And his raiment became shining, exceeding white as snow; so as no fuller on earth can white them."- SAINT MARK THE EVANGELIST 20 September 2009 11:27 UTC tasbeha.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
Denial of Jesus
.^ Three times Jesus asked Simon whether he loved Him.
^ Jesus then responded by telling Peter that he would deny Jesus three times before the rooster had crowed twice.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
^ After Jesus' arrest Peter denies knowing him three times and later repents his denial (Matt.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Mark's assignment was to go to Alexandria by the order of the Holy Spirit, so they listen to the words of the Gospel of Lord Christ."- SAINT MARK THE EVANGELIST 20 September 2009 11:27 UTC tasbeha.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ They claimed that St. Mark's Gospel was written by St. Peter.- SAINT MARK THE EVANGELIST 20 September 2009 11:27 UTC tasbeha.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ CHAPTER FIFETEEN THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MARK THE FIRST GOSPEL: It is agreed among scholars that the Book of Mark was the first of the Gospels, however they differed about the time it was written.- SAINT MARK THE EVANGELIST 20 September 2009 11:27 UTC tasbeha.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
After the death of Jesus
.^ The Gospel tells us that at least once, Jesus called Peter a "satan" because he was not thinking as God but as a human being.
^ One of the first miracles of Jesus was the curing of Peter's mother-in-law, who was ill with "a great fever," as Luke, the doctor, diagnosed it in his Gospel.
^ (Parallel accounts in Mark 8:27-9:1 and Luke 9:18-27) When Jesus predicted that his followers would fall away, Peter insisted that he would remain true.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
It contains little information about Peter himself, except that after the discovery of the
empty tomb, "I, Simon Peter, and Andrew my brother, took our fishing nets and went to the sea."
[50]
Modern times
Religious interpretations
Catholic Church
| Peter |
 |
| Papacy began |
AD 30? |
| Papacy ended |
AD 64? |
| Predecessor |
New creation |
| Successor |
Linus |
| Personal details |
| Birth name |
Simon/Simeon bar Jona |
| Born |
Bethsaida (traditional) |
| Died |
Circa AD 64
City of Rome,
Present day Italy  |
.^ Perhaps this is an allusion to Peter as the first pastor of Rome.
^ Most pointedly, and defined at Vatican Council in 1870, its First Dogmatic Constitution on the Church of Christ, also known as Pastor aeternus, made it a matter of Catholic faith to believe that Christ conferred primacy of jurisdiction over the whole church directly and without mediation (this against conciliarists) upon Peter, that the Petrine office and its primacy persist through the ages in the bishops of Rome, and that they therefore possess universal, ordinary jurisdiction over all of Christ's church.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Roman Catholics believe that Peter's was a permanent office instituted by Christ and conferred upon the apostle's successors in the see of Rome, and that his primacy in the primitive church has fallen now to the bishops (popes) of Rome.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
[53] .^ Advanced Information Peter's primacy or leadership among the twelve apostles and in the primitive church is now generally accepted by Protestant and Catholic scholars alike.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Mark was with St. Peter when he wrote his first epistle and he wrote, "The church that is Babylon, elected together with you salutes you and so does Marcus my son."- SAINT MARK THE EVANGELIST 20 September 2009 11:27 UTC tasbeha.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ We are grateful to the Saint whose name was given to the first church in our country, where his body was buried and after him our Patriarchs were chosen.- SAINT MARK THE EVANGELIST 20 September 2009 11:27 UTC tasbeha.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[54] .^ Christ did not explicitly speak of the "successor of Peter," or the popes,or bishops.
^ As papal claims expanded to take in the whole church and met stiff resistance from emperors and patriarchs in Constantinople, popes insisted ever more clearly that they were the living embodiment of Peter and therefore enjoyed his primacy over the whole church.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Peter, the weak man, chosen by God, is not to be proud but compassionate toward others all his life for the very reason that the Master had forgiven him and was compassionate toward him.
.^ To him, in blessed Peter, full power has been given by our lord Jesus Christ to tend, rule and govern the universal church.” This belief is based upon the Church’s interpretation of 12 words found in Matthew 16:18.- ATRI Journal Online Article Index 20 September 2009 11:27 UTC www.johnankerberg.org [Source type: Original source]
^ If Christ made Simon Peter the cornerstone of His Church-and indeed He did-then did He not intend the completed structure to remain a permanent establishment?
^ Advanced Information Peter's primacy or leadership among the twelve apostles and in the primitive church is now generally accepted by Protestant and Catholic scholars alike.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Jesus told Peter to feed His sheep.
^ When Peter fed the lambs and sheep of Christs flock, he proved by his vigilant care and ceaseless concern that his philein, a love of sentiment, was also an agapan, a love of reverence.
^ AUTHORS: Ankerberg, Dr. John / Weldon, Dr. John Can Christians remain in the Catholic Church without compromising their faith and/or their spiritual growth?- ATRI Journal Online Article Index 20 September 2009 11:27 UTC www.johnankerberg.org [Source type: Original source]
The second passage is found in
Matthew 16:17-20, which states, “by charging him with the superintendency of all his sheep, without exception; and consequently of his whole flock, that is, of his own church,”
[53] and:
.^ The Lord makes it clear that Peter is not the rock on which he will build his church.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
^ The truth Peter confessed is the solid rock on which Jesus builds his church.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
^ The controversy in particular centers around the words of Jesus, "And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it" (Matthew 16:18).- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
c .^ And whatsoever thou shalt bind upon earth, it shall be bound also in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth, it shall be loosed also in heaven".- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
^ And I will give to thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven.- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Jesus announced to Peter that he was giving him the keys to bind and loose sins (Matthew 16:19).- http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/peters.htm 28 January 2010 0:47 UTC www.mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]
– Matthew 16:18-20 (NIV)
Eastern and Oriental Orthodox do not recognize the Bishop of Rome as the successor of St. Peter but the
Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople sends a delegation each year to Rome to participate in the celebration of the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul. In the
Ravenna Document of 13 October 2007, the representatives of the
Eastern Orthodox Church agreed that "Rome, as the Church that 'presides in love' according to the phrase of St. Ignatius of Antioch (To the Romans, Prologue), occupied the first place in the
taxis, and that the bishop of Rome was therefore the
protos among the patriarchs, if the Papacy unites with the Orthodox Church.
.^ CHAPTER FIFETEEN THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MARK THE FIRST GOSPEL: It is agreed among scholars that the Book of Mark was the first of the Gospels, however they differed about the time it was written.- SAINT MARK THE EVANGELIST 20 September 2009 11:27 UTC tasbeha.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ They also ordained Raphael Al Tokhi as their bishop for Upper Egypt, but he was unable to stay there, so the Pope of Rome called him to Rome to stay there .- SAINT MARK THE EVANGELIST 20 September 2009 11:27 UTC tasbeha.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
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