Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Saint Peter" in English language version.
scholarship largely came to accept Peter's death in Rome "as a fact which is relatively, although not absolutely, assured". While a select few were willing to make this judgment definitive
Christian Pharisees demand that the entire Torah be kept, but Peter reportedly opposes this ([Acts] 15:10) and ... silences the Judaizers.
[John's] Gospel is commonly divided into a prologue (1:1–51); a Book of Signs [...] (2:1–11:57); the Book of Glory [...] (12:1–20:31); and an epilogue (21:1–25).
Scholars generally viewed June 29 as a purely liturgical date.
"Babylon" became the Christian code name for Rome after Titus destroyed Jerusalem, thus duplicating the Babylonians' demolition of the holy city (587 BCE).
Muslim exegesis identifies the disciples of Jesus as Peter, Andrew, Matthew, Thomas, Philip, John, James, Bartholomew, and Simon
"bettyr", a corruption of (St) Peter.
[M]any scholars… accept Rome as the location of the martyrdom and the reign of Nero as the time.
If Peter never made it to the capital, he still could have been the first pope, since one of his successors could have been the first holder of that office to settle in Rome. After all, if the papacy exists, it was established by Christ during his lifetime, long before Peter is said to have reached Rome. There must have been a period of some years in which the papacy did not yet have its connection to Rome.
And what does Kepha mean? It means a rock, the same as petra (It doesn't mean a little stone or a pebble) What Jesus said to Simon in Matthew 16:18 was this: "You are Kepha, and on this kepha I will build my Church".
Since, moreover, you are close upon Italy, you have Rome, from which there comes even into our own hands the very authority (of apostles themselves). How happy is its church, on which apostles poured forth all their doctrine along with their blood; where Peter endures a passion like his Lord's; where Paul wins his crown in a death like John's [the Baptist]; where the Apostle John was first plunged, unhurt, into boiling oil, and thence remitted to his island-exile.
James the Just, the brother of Jesus, is known from the New Testament as the chief apostle of the Torah-obedient Christians.
James the Just, the brother of Jesus, is known from the New Testament as the chief apostle of the Torah-obedient Christians.
If Peter never made it to the capital, he still could have been the first pope, since one of his successors could have been the first holder of that office to settle in Rome. After all, if the papacy exists, it was established by Christ during his lifetime, long before Peter is said to have reached Rome. There must have been a period of some years in which the papacy did not yet have its connection to Rome.
And what does Kepha mean? It means a rock, the same as petra (It doesn't mean a little stone or a pebble) What Jesus said to Simon in Matthew 16:18 was this: "You are Kepha, and on this kepha I will build my Church".
