42 He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, “You are Simon the son of (A)John. You shall be called (B)Cephas” (which means (C)Peter[a]).

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Footnotes

  1. John 1:42 Cephas and Peter are from the word for rock in Aramaic and Greek, respectively

22 whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future—all are yours,

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Jesus and Peter

15 When they had (A)finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, (B)“Simon, (C)son of John, (D)do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.” He said to him, “Feed (E)my lambs.” 16 He said to him a second time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.” He said to him, (F)“Tend (G)my sheep.” 17 He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” Peter was grieved because he said to him (H)the third time, “Do you love me?” and he said to him, “Lord, (I)you know everything; you know that I love you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed (J)my sheep.

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12 What I mean is that (A)each one of you says, “I follow Paul,” or “I follow (B)Apollos,” or “I follow (C)Cephas,” or “I follow Christ.”

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and when James and Cephas and John, (A)who seemed to be (B)pillars, perceived the (C)grace that was given to me, they (D)gave the right hand of fellowship to Barnabas and me, that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised.

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(A)Do we not have the right to take along a believing wife,[a] as do the other apostles and (B)the brothers of the Lord and (C)Cephas?

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 9:5 Greek a sister as wife

(A)The names of the twelve apostles are these: first, Simon, (B)who is called Peter, and (C)Andrew his brother; (D)James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother;

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70 Jesus answered them, (A)“Did I not choose you, (B)the twelve? And yet one of you is (C)a devil.” 71 He spoke of Judas (D)the son of Simon Iscariot, for (E)he, one of the twelve, was going to betray him.

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But when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, (A)“Depart from me, for (B)I am a sinful man, O Lord.”

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17 And Jesus answered him, (A)“Blessed are you, (B)Simon Bar-Jonah! For (C)flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, (D)but my Father who is in heaven. 18 And I tell you, (E)you are Peter, and (F)on this rock[a] I will build my church, and (G)the gates of (H)hell[b] shall not prevail against it.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 16:18 The Greek words for Peter and rock sound similar
  2. Matthew 16:18 Greek the gates of Hades

Simon Peter, (A)Thomas (called the Twin), Nathanael of (B)Cana in Galilee, (C)the sons of Zebedee, and two others of his disciples were together.

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47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him and said of him, “Behold, (A)an Israelite indeed, (B)in whom there is no deceit!” 48 Nathanael said to him, “How (C)do you know me?” Jesus answered him, “Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.”

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18 (A)I am not speaking of all of you; I know (B)whom I have chosen. But (C)the Scripture will be fulfilled,[a] (D)‘He who ate my bread has lifted his heel against me.’

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Footnotes

  1. John 13:18 Greek But in order that the Scripture may be fulfilled

24 But Jesus (A)on his part did not entrust himself to them, because (B)he knew all people 25 and needed no one to bear witness about man, for (C)he himself knew what was in man.

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14 Simon, (A)whom he named Peter, and (B)Andrew his brother, and (C)James and John, and Philip, and Bartholomew,

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