42 and he brought Simon to Jesus.

When Jesus saw him, he said, “You are Simon, son of John.[a] You will be called Cephas”(A) (which is translated “Peter”[b]).

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Footnotes

  1. 1:42 Other mss read “Simon, son of Jonah
  2. 1:42 Both Aramaic Cephas and Gk Petros mean “rock”

42 And he brought him to Jesus. And when Jesus beheld him, he said, Thou art Simon the son of Jona: thou shalt be called Cephas, which is by interpretation, A stone.

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