These twelve were Simon (to whom He gave the surname of Peter)

And He allowed no one to accompany Him except Peter and the brothers James and John.

Then He asked them pointedly, "But you yourselves, who do you say that I am?" "You are the Christ," answered Peter.

This He told them plainly; whereupon Peter took Him and began to remonstrate with Him.

But turning round and seeing His disciples, He rebuked Peter. "Get behind me, Adversary," He said, "for your thoughts are not God's thoughts, but men's."

Six days later, Jesus took with Him Peter, James, and John, and brought them alone, apart from the rest, up a high mountain; and in their presence His appearance underwent a change.

when Peter said to Jesus, "Rabbi, we are thankful to you that we are here. Let us put up three tents--one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah."

"And whoever shall occasion the fall of one of these little ones who believe, he would be better off if, with a millstone round his neck, he were lying at the bottom of the sea.

If your hand should cause you to sin, cut it off: it would be better for you to enter into Life maimed, than remain in possession of both your hands and go away into Gehenna, into the fire which cannot be put out.

Or if your foot should cause you to sin, cut it off: it would be better for you to enter into Life crippled, than remain in possession of both your feet and be thrown into Gehenna.

Or if your eye should cause you to sin, tear it out. It would be better for you to enter into the Kingdom of God half-blind than remain in possession of two eyes and be thrown into Gehenna,

"Remember," said Peter to Him, "that we forsook everything and have become your followers."

and Peter, recollecting, said to Him, "Look, Rabbi, the fig-tree which you cursed is withered up."

and To love Him with all one's heart, with all one's understanding, and with all one's strength, and to love one's fellow man no less than oneself, is far better than all our whole burnt-offerings and sacrifices."

He was sitting on the Mount of Olives opposite to the Temple, when Peter, James, John, and Andrew, apart from the others asked Him,

"Brother will betray brother to be killed, and fathers will betray children; and children will rise against their parents and have them put to death.

But Judas Iscariot, already mentioned as one of the Twelve, went to the High Priests to betray Jesus to them.

They gladly listened to his proposal, and promised to give him a sum of money. So he looked out for an opportunity to betray Him.

And while they were at table Jesus said, "I solemnly tell you that one of you will betray me--one who is eating with me."

"All may stumble and fall," said Peter, "yet I never will."

"Even if I must die with you," declared Peter again and again, "I will never disown you." In like manner protested also all the disciples.

Then He took with Him Peter and James and John, and began to be full of terror and distress,

Then He came and found them asleep, and He said to Peter, "Simon, are you asleep? Had you not strength to keep awake a single hour?

Peter followed Jesus at a distance, as far as the outer court of the High Priest's palace. But there he remained sitting among the officers, and warming himself by the fire.

Now while Peter was below in the quadrangle, one of the High Priest's maidservants came,

and seeing Peter warming himself she looked at him and said, "You also were with Jesus, the Nazarene."

A second time he repeatedly denied it. Soon afterwards the bystanders again accused Peter, saying, "You are surely one of them, for you too are a Galilaean."

No sooner had he spoken than a cock crowed for the second time, and Peter recollected the words of Jesus, "Before the cock crows twice, you will three times disown me." And as he thought of it, he wept aloud.

But go and tell His disciples and Peter that He is going before you into Galilee: and that there you will see Him, as He told you."