there was Simon, whom he surnamed Peter,

And there was a woman who had had a hemorrhage for twelve years ??26 she had suffered a great deal under a number of doctors and had spent all her means but was none the better; in fact she was rather worse.

He would not allow anyone to accompany him except Peter and James and John the brother of James.

So he inquired of them, "And who do you say I am?" Peter replied, "You are the Christ."

he spoke of this quite freely. Peter took him and began to reprove him for it,

but he turned on him and noticing his disciples reproved Peter, telling him, "Get behind me, you Satan! Your outlook is not God's but man's."

Six days afterwards Jesus took Peter, James and John, and led them up a high hill by themselves alone; in their presence he was transfigured,

So Peter addressed Jesus, saying, "Rabbi, it is a good thing we are here; let us put up three tents, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah"

And whoever is a hindrance to one of these little ones who believe, it were better for him to have a great millstone hung round his neck and be thrown into the sea.

If your hand is a hindrance to you, cut it off: better be maimed and get into Life, than keep your two hands and go to Gehenna, to the fire that is never quenched.

If your foot is a hindrance to you, cut it off: better get into Life a cripple, than keep your two feet and be thrown into Gehenna.

If your eye is a hindrance to you, tear it out: better get into God's Realm with one eye, than keep your two eyes and be thrown into Gehenna,

Peter began, "Well, we have left our all and followed you."

Then Peter remembered. "Rabbi," he said, "there is the fig tree you cursed, all withered!"

And as he sat on the Hill of Olives opposite the temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew asked him in private,

Brother will betray brother to death, the father will betray his child, children will rise against their parents and kill them,

Then Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went to the high priests to betray him to them.

As they were at table eating, Jesus said, "Truly I tell you, one of you is going to betray me, one who is eating with me."

The Son of man goes the road that the scripture has described for him, but woe to the man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! Better that man had never been born!"

Peter said to him, "Though all are disconcerted, I will not be."

But he took Peter and James and John along with him; and as he began to feel appalled and agitated,

Then he came and found them asleep; so he said to Peter, "Are you sleeping, Simon? Could you not watch for a single hour?

Peter followed him at a distance till he got inside the courtyard of the high priest, where he sat down with the attendants to warm himself at the fire.

Now as Peter was downstairs in the courtyard, a maidservant of the high priest came along,

and when she noticed Peter warming himself she looked at him and said, "You were with Jesus of Nazaret too."

But he denied it again. After a little the bystanders once more said to Peter, "To be sure, you are one of them. Why, you are a Galilean!"

At that moment the cock crowed for the second time. Then Peter remembered how Jesus had told him, "Before the cock crows twice you will disown me thrice;" and he burst into tears.

Go you and tell his disciples and Peter, 'He precedes you to Galilee; you shall see him there, as he told you.'"

while they went out and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them and confirming the word by the miracles that endorsed it. (b) But they gave Peter and his companions a brief account of all these injunctions. And, after that, Jesus himself sent out by means of them from east to west the sacred and imperishable message of eternal salvation.