Peter, which was the name he gave to Simon,

He let no one go with him but Peter, James, and James's brother John.

And he asked them, "But who do you say that I am?" Peter answered and said to him, "You are the Christ."

He told them this plainly. And Peter took him aside, and began to reprove him for it.

But turning and seeing his disciples he reproved Peter, and said, "Get out of my sight, you Satan! for you do not side with God, but with men."

Six days after this Jesus took Peter, James, and John with him, and led them up on a high mountain, off by themselves. And his appearance underwent a change in their presence,

Then Peter spoke, and said to Jesus, "Master, how good it is that we are here! Let us put up three huts, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah."

And whoever causes one of these humble believers to fall might better have a great millstone hung around his neck and be thrown into the sea.

If your hand makes you fall, cut it off. You might better enter upon life maimed, than go with both your hands to the pit, into the fire that cannot be put out.

And if your foot makes you fall, cut it off. You might better enter upon life crippled, than be thrown with both your feet into the pit.

And if your eye makes you fall, tear it out. You might better get into the Kingdom of God with only one eye than be thrown with both your eyes into the pit,

Peter started to say to him, "Well, we have left all we had, and have followed you."

And Peter remembered about it and said to him, "Look, Master! The fig tree that you cursed is withered up!"

As he was sitting on the Mount of Olives opposite the Temple, Peter, James, John, and Andrew asked him, apart from the others,

Then Judas Iscariot, one of the Twelve, went to the high priests to betray Jesus to them.

They were delighted to hear it and promised to pay him for it. So he was watching for an opportunity to betray him to them.

And when they were at the table eating, Jesus said, "I tell you, one of you is going to betray me??ne who is eating with me."

For the Son of Man is indeed to go away as the Scriptures say of him, but alas for the man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that man if he had never been born."

But Peter said to him, "Even if they all desert you, I will not!"

And he took Peter, James, and John along with him, and he began to feel distress and dread,

When he went back he found them asleep and he said to Peter, "Simon, are you asleep? Were you not able to watch for one hour?

And Peter followed him at a distance, right into the courtyard of the high priest and sat down with the attendants and warmed himself at the fire.

While Peter was down in the courtyard, one of the high priest's maids came up,

and seeing Peter warming himself, she looked at him and said, "You were with this Jesus of Nazareth too!"

But he denied it again. And again a little while after, the bystanders said to Peter, "You certainly are one of them, for you are a Galilean!"

At that moment for the second time a cock crowed. And Peter remembered how Jesus had said to him, "Before the cock crows twice, you will disown me three times!" And at that, he wept aloud.

But go and say to his disciples and to Peter, 'He is going before you to Galilee; you will see him there, just as he told you.' "

And they fled out of the tomb, for they were all trembling and bewildered, and they said nothing about it to anyone, for they were afraid to do so. AN ANCIENT APPENDIX But they reported briefly to Peter and his companions all they had been told. And afterward Jesus himself sent out by them from the east to the west the sacred and incorruptible message of eternal salvation. \b ANOTHER ANCIENT APPENDIX