John 1:42

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Thou art

Called

Galatians 2:9

A stone

General references

Luke 2:17

Bible References

Thou art

Jesus saw Nathanael approaching and said of him, "Here is a genuine Israelite! There is no guile in him."

Jesus, however, would not trust himself to them; he knew all men,

Jesus answered them, "Did I not choose you, the twelve? And yet one of you is a devil!"

When I say 'you,' I do not mean you all; I know the men of my choice, and I made my choice that this scripture might be fulfilled, he who eats my bread has lifted up his heel against me.

Called

By 'quarrelling' I mean that each of you has his party-cry, "I belong to Paul," "And I to Apollos," "And I to Cephas," "And I to Christ."

Paul, Apollos, Cephas, the world, life, death, the present and the future ??all belongs to you;

Have we no right to travel with a Christian wife, like the rest of the apostles, like the brothers of the Lord, like Cephas himself?

and that he was seen by Cephas, then by the twelve;

and when they recognized the grace I had been given, then the so-called 'pillars' of the church, James and Cephas and John, gave myself and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship. Our sphere was to be the Gentiles, theirs the circumcised.

A stone

Simon Peter, Thomas (who was called 'the Twin'), Nathanael from Cana in Galilee, the two sons of Zebedaeus, and two other disciples of his, were all together.

These are the names of the twelve apostles: first Simon (who is called Peter) and Andrew his brother, James the son of Zebedaeus and John his brother,

Now I tell you, Peter is your name and on this rock I will build my church; the powers of Hades shall not succeed against it.

there was Simon, whom he surnamed Peter,

But when Simon Peter saw it he fell at the knees of Jesus, crying, "Lord, leave me; I am a sinful man."

Simon (to whom he gave the name of Peter), Andrew his brother, James, John, Philip, Bartholomew,

General references

When they saw this they told people about the word which had been spoken to them about the child;