Simon Peter appears repeatedly and prominently in all four gospels as well as the Acts of the Apostles.
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Simon Peter appears repeatedly and prominently in all four gospels as well as the Acts of the Apostles.
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Simon Peter is mentioned, under either the name Peter or Cephas, in Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians and the Epistle to the Galatians.
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Simon Peter became the first listed apostle ordained by Jesus in the early Church.
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In Luke, Simon Peter owns the boat that Jesus uses to preach to the multitudes who were pressing on him at the shore of Lake Gennesaret .
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Andrew then went to his brother Simon Peter, saying, "We have found the Messiah", and then brought Simon Peter to Jesus.
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Matthew additionally describes Simon Peter walking on water for a moment but beginning to sink when his faith wavers .
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Simon Peter was twice arraigned, with John, before the Sanhedrin and directly defied them .
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Simon Peter applied the message of the vision on clean animals to the gentiles and follows his meeting with Cornelius the Centurion by claiming that "God shows no partiality".
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Simon Peter is regarded as the first leader of the early Church, though he was eclipsed in this leadership by James the Just, "the Brother of the Lord".
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Simon Peter is always listed first among the Twelve Apostles in the gospels and in the Book of Acts.
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Simon Peter is frequently mentioned in the gospels as forming with James the Elder and John a special group within the Twelve Apostles, present at incidents at which the others were not present, such as at the Transfiguration of Jesus, at the raising of Jairus' daughter and at the agony in the Garden of Gethsemane.
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Simon Peter is often depicted in the gospels as spokesman of all the Apostles.
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Simon Peter is their spokesman at several events, he conducts the election of Matthias, his opinion in the debate over converting Gentiles was crucial, etc.
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In John's gospel, Simon Peter is the first person to enter the empty tomb, although the women and the beloved disciple see it before him.
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In Luke's account, the women's report of the empty tomb is dismissed by the apostles, and Simon Peter is the only one who goes to check for himself, running to the tomb.
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Simon Peter was considered along with James the Just and John the Apostle as pillars of the Church.
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Dunn proposes that Simon Peter was a "bridge-man" between the opposing views of Paul and James the Just [italics original]:.
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Simon Peter was probably in fact and effect the bridge-man who did more than any other to hold together the diversity of first-century Christianity.
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Paul affirms that Simon Peter had the special charge of being apostle to the Jews, just as he, Paul, was apostle to the Gentiles.
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Common view of Peter is provided by Jesuit Father Daniel J Harrington, who suggests that Peter was an unlikely symbol of stability.
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Simon Peter'storians have furnished other evidence of Peter's sojourn in Antioch.
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One is that Simon Peter had a group of 12 to 16 followers, whom the Clementine writings name.
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Tradition locates his burial place where the Basilica of Saint Simon Peter was later built, directly beneath the Basilica's high altar.
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The skull of Saint Simon Peter is claimed to reside in the Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran since at least the ninth century, alongside the skull of Saint Paul.
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The majority of Saint Simon Peter's remains are still preserved in Rome, under the high altar of St Simon Peter's Basilica.
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Clement of Rome's First Letter, a document that has been dated from the 90s to the 120s, is one of the earliest sources adduced in support of Simon Peter's stay in Rome, but Zwierlein questions the text's authenticity and whether it has any knowledge about Simon Peter's life beyond what is contained in the New Testament Acts of the Apostles.
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However, Simon Peter never bore the title of "Pope" or "Vicar of Christ" in the sense the Catholic Church considers Simon Peter the first Pope.
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Simon Peter is the light, and yet you are the light: he is the Priest, and yet he maketh Priests: he is the rock, and he made a rock.
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Simon Peter is often depicted in both Western and Eastern Christian art holding a key or a set of keys.
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Simon Peter was instructed by Christ to strengthen his brethren, i e, the apostles.
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Simon Peter greets some fifty people in Rome by name, but not Peter whom he knew.
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Oscar Cullmann, a Lutheran theologian and distinguished Church historian, disagrees with Luther and the Protestant reformers who held that by "rock" Christ did not mean Simon Peter, but meant either himself or the faith of His followers.
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Forty-four said, Simon Peter's faith is the rock, The remainder looked upon the whole body of believers as the rock.
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The Orthodox hold that Simon Peter did not act as leader at the Council of Jerusalem, but as merely one of a number who spoke.
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The different orders of liturgies used for sanctification of Church buildings, marriage, ordination, et cetera, reveal that the primacy of Simon Peter is a part of living faith of the Church.
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Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints teaches that Simon Peter was the first leader of the early Christian church after the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
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Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism, recorded in multiple revelations that the resurrected Simon Peter appeared to him and Oliver Cowdery in 1829, near Harmony Township, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, in order to bestow the apostleship and keys of the kingdom as part of a restoration of priesthood authority.
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An old tradition, which involves the legend of Habib the Carpenter, mentions that Simon Peter was one of the three disciples sent to Antioch to preach to the people there.
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Simon Peter appears in the writings of Baha'u'llah, the Prophet-Founder of the Baha'i Faith, often referred to as The Rock:.
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Daniel B Wallace writes that, for many scholars, "the issue of authorship is already settled, at least negatively: the apostle Peter did not write this letter" and that "the vast bulk of NT scholars adopts this perspective without much discussion".
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Two Epistles attributed to St Simon Peter differ in style, character, and the construction of the words, which proves that according to the exigencies of the moment St Simon Peter made use of different interpreters.
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Fragmentary Gospel of Simon Peter contains an account of the death of Jesus differing significantly from the canonical gospels.
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In traditional iconography, Simon Peter has been shown very consistently since early Christian art as an oldish, thick-set man with a "slightly combative" face and a short beard, and usually white hair, sometimes balding.
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Narrative images of Simon Peter include several scenes from the Life of Christ where he is mentioned in the gospels, and he is often identifiable in scenes where his presence is not specifically mentioned.
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Saint Simon Peter Attempting to Walk on Water, by Francois Boucher, 1766.
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