Assertion: apostle | /r/HasProperty | peter
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text: The Apostle Peter is speaking in this passage.
text: The Apostle Peter clearly taught that the great prediction was completely fulfilled in Jesus Christ.
text: Mark is considered by many to be “Peter’s gospel,” because Mark was closely associated with the apostle Peter (1 Pet.
text: The apostle Peter classified Paul's epistles as "Scripture," right along with "other scripture.
text: So now you know what an epistle is and which books were epistles, and that they were basically letters sent from the apostles (Peter, Paul, and John) or church leaders like Jude and James.
text: According to tradition and extra-biblical sources, the Apostle Peter was crucified during Nero’s reign on an upside down cross.
text: The apostle Peter became the fisher of men in masse where Andrew was a fisher for individuals.
text: James soon became the leader of the Jerusalem church, as demonstrated by the fact that Paul met with him and the apostle Peter (also called Cephas) when he first went to Jerusalem after his conversion (Galatians 1:18–19).
text: When the Apostle Peter proclaims, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God” (Matthew 16:16), Jesus affirms his conviction and promises that the gates of hell will not prevail against the church that holds to this doctrine (Matthew 16:17).
text: In Acts 1:21, the Apostle Peter says that the next apostle…the one to replace Judas, must be “one of the men who have accompanied us during all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us.
text: Lactantius, in his book called Of the Manner in Which the Persecutors Died, written around 318, noted that "and while Nero reigned, the Apostle Peter came to Rome, and, through the power of God committed unto him, wrought certain miracles, and, by turning many to the true religion, built up a faithful and stedfast temple unto the Lord.
text: Church tradition ascribes the epistles First and Second Peter to the Apostle Peter, as does the text of Second Peter itself, an attribution rejected by scholarship.
text: Acts portrays Peter and other leaders as successfully opposing the Christian Pharisees who insisted on circumcision ^ Hypotyposes (A.D. 190); in which he also says that Cephas was one of the seventy disciples, a man who bore the same name as the apostle Peter, and the one concerning whom Paul says, [When Cephas came to Antioch I withstood him to his face.]
text: Eusebius of Caesarea, in his " Historia Ecclesiastica (I,12:2)" while naming some of the Seventy Disciples of Jesus, says: "This is the account of Clement, in the fifth book of(A.D. 190); in which he also says that Cephas was one of the seventy disciples, a man who bore the same name as the apostle Peter, and the one concerning whom Paul says, [When Cephas came to Antioch I withstood him to his face.]
text: The Apostle Peter is one of the great stories of a changed life in the Bible.
text: The Apostle Peter may have been the most outspoken of the twelve apostles in Jesus’ ministry on earth.
text: Peter the Disciple to the Apostle Peter
text: Even the Apostle Peter recognized the special wisdom given to Paul (2 Peter 3:15-16).
text: He did not hesitate to confront the apostle Peter when he saw him acting contrary to the gospel (Galatians 1)!
text: The apostle Peter, in his second Bible book, referred to Paul's special calling and the unique understanding given him to convey God's precious truth (2Peter 3:14 - 15).
text: Rejected by the Jews, the message is taken to the Gentiles under the guidance of the Apostle Peter.
text: The Apostle Peter took that information and prayed what he did in Acts 1:21-22.
text: Paul was converted by Christ (Gal 1:15–17), claimed revelation from Christ (Gal 1:11–12), preached a gospel revealed separately and yet accepted and approved by the other Apostles (Gal 1:18–19, 23; 2:2, 9), and even so that the Apostle Peter was corrected and repented by the Apostle Paul (Gal 2:11).
text: If you do not accept Paul, then you cannot accept the apostle Peter who accepted the writings of Paul as Scripture (2 Pet 3:16), and then one must certainly not accept John who accepted Peter (1 John 1:1–4), and Peter accepted John (2 Pet 1:16–21).
text: For example, the apostle Peter was said to have been crucified upside down in Rome under the persecution of Herod.
text: The Catholic Church has traditionally claimed a unique leadership role for the Apostle Peter, believed to have been named by Jesus as head of the Apostles and as a focus of their unity, who became the first Bishop of Rome, and whose successors inherited the role and accordingly became the leaders of the worldwide Church as well.
text: Most present-day Catholics interpret Jesus as saying he was building his church on the rock of the Apostle Peter and the succession of popes which claim Apostolic succession from him.
text: As it relates to apostolic succession, Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery said that the apostles Peter, James, and John appeared to them in 1829 and conferred upon them the Melchizedek Priesthood and with it "the keys of the kingdom, and of the dispensation of the fullness of times".
text: One metaphor that has been disputed is Jesus Christ’s calling the apostle Peter
text: One thing Clement does underscore, however, is that the apostles Peter and Paul (who had been intimate with the congregations at Corinth and Rome) were the “good” apostles (5:3).
text: The apostle Peter in his Second Epistle said that the Jewish Christians in particular were beginning to revile prophetic teachings, and this would have included the first draft of the Book of Revelation which contained the seven seals (without the insert of chapters 12, 13 and 14).
text: It has been said that the apostle Peter was a slender person.
text: Another description of the apostle Peter is that his eyes were black, but flecked with red due to frequent weeping.
text: Of the final days of the apostle Peter in Rome, Italy, Jowett wrote that Peter was cast into a horrible prison called the Mamertine.
text: In this blog post, Brown University Religious Studies professor Nicola Denzey Lewis answers frequently asked questions about the apostle Peter.
text: What traditions connect the apostle Peter to Rome?
text: Is it likely that the apostle Peter went to Rome and founded the church there?
text: Why are there two places in Rome where the apostle Peter was supposedly buried?
text: Discover the lessons that we must learn from the life of the Apostle Peter.
text: Notice the response of the Apostle Peter and the rest of the group.
text: But since it would be too long, in a work like this, to list the successions in all the churches, we shall take only one of them, the church that is greatest, most ancient, and known to all, founded and set up by the two most glorious apostles Peter and Paul at Rome while showing that the tradition and the faith it proclaims to men comes down through the successions of the bishops even to us” (ibid., 3.2).
text: The Roman Catholic Church maintains that sometime after the recorded events of the book of Acts, the Apostle Peter became the first bishop of Rome, and that the Roman bishop was accepted by the early church as the central authority among all of the churches.
text: Yes, the Apostle Peter had a leadership role among the disciples.
text: Rejected by the Jews, the message is taken to the Gentiles under the guidance of the Apostle Peter.
text: Or the Apostle Peter.