You wrote( in green): There's a play on words going on there which is less clear in the Koine Greek than it was in the Aramaic.
Jesus renamed Simon "Cephas" (or "Kephas"), which was from the Aramaic and it means "rock" or "stone". However, when translating this from the Aramaic to the Greek, the translators ran across a problem because Greek is gender-sensitive. Therefore, "Petros", which is masculine, was used as Peter's new name because he was a man.
And this should stand to common sense because it's quite obvious that Jesus changed Peter's name for some reason, and names in Hebrew not only are names but are also descriptors.
Peter has a special designation in the NT, such as when told by Jesus to "feed my sheep..."). When the apostles are listed, Peter's name is almost always first, sometimes just saying "Peter and the others". Paul confronts Peter, not the others, over the issue of the circumcision of gentiles. It is Peter through his vision that ends the kosher Laws for those who convert. Etc.
Sorry, I was raised in the Roman Catholic Church of the early 1960’s whereas the mass was in Latin, and bible reading by the peons was not encouraged. I had later heard my cousin was delegated as a reader, such as elder, and read the Church’s chosen epistle.
As for Peter, he is not today called Cephas, he is called Petros (rock), and not Petras (foundation stone), which was for the actual rock the church was built on, which is not and was not Peter. (Isaiah 28:16). The misdirection was deliberate, in order to bring about the prophecies of the OT. (Matthew 5:17)
If you had listened to Yeshua, he said he came to fulfill the “Law” and the “prophets” (Matthew 5:17). He chose Simon bar Jonas, and named him “rock” because he was fulfilling Isaiah 22:15-25), whereas Peter was the representation of Shebna, the “steward” of the “house of David” who had the “key” to the “house of David”, and carved “a resting place in the “rock”, and what he “opens no one will shut” (Isaiah 22:22), and “in that day”, he will “fall”, and anyone “hanging” on him, will be “cut off”. “In that day” is regard to the “day of the LORD” which is at the door (Matthew 24:33). The pope, Peter’s supposed heir, will “fall” and those hanging onto him will be “cut off” (Isaiah 22:25).
As for the prophecy regarding Peter as the “worthless shepherd” who would not feed, care or tend the sheep, look to Zechariah 11:16-17, which was noted by John in John 21:16. Peter appears to fail in sets of threes. (Matthew 26:33) As for Peter being always the “first”, look to how Yeshua answered Peter’s question about his own rewards. Yeshua said, “the first shall be last and the last shall be first,. (Matthew 19:27-30) If you look at your NT, the last apostle chosen, the tax collector, Matthew, is the first you will see, and you will find 1 Peter and 2 Peter, with questionable authorship, at the end.
As for the NT canon: Athanasius on the Canon of Scripture
Jesus renamed Simon "Cephas" (or "Kephas"), which was from the Aramaic and it means "rock" or "stone". However, when translating this from the Aramaic to the Greek, the translators ran across a problem because Greek is gender-sensitive. Therefore, "Petros", which is masculine, was used as Peter's new name because he was a man.
And this should stand to common sense because it's quite obvious that Jesus changed Peter's name for some reason, and names in Hebrew not only are names but are also descriptors.
Peter has a special designation in the NT, such as when told by Jesus to "feed my sheep..."). When the apostles are listed, Peter's name is almost always first, sometimes just saying "Peter and the others". Paul confronts Peter, not the others, over the issue of the circumcision of gentiles. It is Peter through his vision that ends the kosher Laws for those who convert. Etc.
Sorry, I was raised in the Roman Catholic Church of the early 1960’s whereas the mass was in Latin, and bible reading by the peons was not encouraged. I had later heard my cousin was delegated as a reader, such as elder, and read the Church’s chosen epistle.
As for Peter, he is not today called Cephas, he is called Petros (rock), and not Petras (foundation stone), which was for the actual rock the church was built on, which is not and was not Peter. (Isaiah 28:16). The misdirection was deliberate, in order to bring about the prophecies of the OT. (Matthew 5:17)
If you had listened to Yeshua, he said he came to fulfill the “Law” and the “prophets” (Matthew 5:17). He chose Simon bar Jonas, and named him “rock” because he was fulfilling Isaiah 22:15-25), whereas Peter was the representation of Shebna, the “steward” of the “house of David” who had the “key” to the “house of David”, and carved “a resting place in the “rock”, and what he “opens no one will shut” (Isaiah 22:22), and “in that day”, he will “fall”, and anyone “hanging” on him, will be “cut off”. “In that day” is regard to the “day of the LORD” which is at the door (Matthew 24:33). The pope, Peter’s supposed heir, will “fall” and those hanging onto him will be “cut off” (Isaiah 22:25).
As for the prophecy regarding Peter as the “worthless shepherd” who would not feed, care or tend the sheep, look to Zechariah 11:16-17, which was noted by John in John 21:16. Peter appears to fail in sets of threes. (Matthew 26:33) As for Peter being always the “first”, look to how Yeshua answered Peter’s question about his own rewards. Yeshua said, “the first shall be last and the last shall be first,. (Matthew 19:27-30) If you look at your NT, the last apostle chosen, the tax collector, Matthew, is the first you will see, and you will find 1 Peter and 2 Peter, with questionable authorship, at the end.
As for the NT canon: Athanasius on the Canon of Scripture
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