"served in Albania with the Gendarmerie in the 1930s. In 1994, Drita re-produced Dom Simon Filipaj's Bible which includes the Apocrypha. The version is used by Albanian Roman Catholic churches. In 1993, European Christian Mission produced the first bound copy of the entire Bible in Albanian, prepared by Stephen Etches. Bible smuggler Brother Andrew came personally to Albania to present this Bible to the country's president and people. This version which was a dynamic equivalent translation similar to the English Good News Bible or German Gute Nachricht translation is now out of print. In 2003 this was reprinted by the"
"Simon was the son of Mary and Clophas. While Robert Eisenman suggests he was Simon Cephas (Simon the Rock), known in Greek as Peter (from ""petros"" = rock), who led the Jewish Christian community after the death of James in 62 CE. Simon, brother of Jesus Simon is described in the New Testament as one of the brothers of Jesus (). In , people ask concerning Jesus, ""Is not this the carpenter's son? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas?"" while in they ask, ""Is not this the carpenter, the son"
"Saint Peter Saint Peter (Syriac/Aramaic: ܫܸܡܥܘܿܢ ܟܹ݁ܐܦ݂ܵܐ, ""Shemayon Keppa""; ; ; ; ; r. AD 30; died between AD 64 and 68), also known as Simon Peter, Simeon, or Simon (, ), according to the New Testament, was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus Christ, leaders of the early Christian Great Church. Pope Gregory I called him repeatedly the ""Prince of the Apostles"". According to Catholic teaching, Jesus promised Peter in the ""Rock of My Church"" dialogue in Matthew a special position in the Church. He is traditionally counted as the first Bishop of Romeor popeand also by Eastern"
"during Jesus' ministry. Peter became the first listed apostle ordained by Jesus in the early church. Peter was a fisherman in Bethsaida. He was named Simon, son of Jonah or John. The three Synoptic Gospels recount how Peter's mother-in-law was healed by Jesus at their home in Capernaum ; this passage clearly depicts Peter as being married. has also been taken to imply that he was married. In the Synoptic Gospels, Peter (then Simon) was a fisherman along with his brother, Andrew, and the sons of Zebedee, James and John. The Gospel of John also depicts Peter fishing, even after"
"autou""). Verse 2 calls them ""the twelve apostles"": Now the names of the twelve apostles are these: The first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother; Philip, and Bartholomew; Thomas, and Matthew the publican; James the son of Alphaeus, and Lebbaeus, whose surname was Thaddaeus; Simon the Canaanite, and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him. ""(King James Version)"" Verse 5 refers to them simply as ""the twelve"". New King James Version Cross reference: Mark 6:8–9; Luke 9:3 This the Jews call (lymrt), ""tarmil"": and which their commentators say, is"
"Simon, brother of Jesus Simon is described in the New Testament as one of the brothers of Jesus (). In , people ask concerning Jesus, ""Is not this the carpenter's son? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas?"" while in they ask, ""Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, and Joses, and of Juda, and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us?"" The Catholic Church defined that ""brothers of Jesus"" are not biological children of Mary, because of the dogma of the perpetual"
"only a connotation; that in the Attic Greek ""petra"" denotes ""grown rock, rocky range, cliff, grotto""; and that ""petros"" means ""small stone, firestone, sling stone, moving boulder"". The combined name Σίμων Πέτρος (Simon Peter) appears 19 times in the New Testament. In some Syriac documents he is called, in English translation, Simon Cephas. Peter's life story is told in the four canonical gospels, the Acts of the Apostles, New Testament letters, the non-canonical Gospel of the Hebrews and other Early Church accounts of his life and death. In the New Testament, he is among the first of the disciples called"
"brother of Apostle Peter: The next day John was there again with two of his disciples. When he saw Jesus passing by, he said, ""Look, the Lamb of God!"" When the two disciples heard him say this, they followed Jesus... Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, was one of the two who heard what John had said and who had followed Jesus. The first thing Andrew did was to find his brother Simon and tell him, ""We have found the Messiah"". Andrew is often called the ""Protokletos"" or ""first-called"". The Gospel of Matthew and the Gospel of Mark report the call of"
"known as Saint Peter, a fisherman from Galilee, took a leadership position among Jesus' followers and was of great importance in the founding of the Christian Church. The name Peter is ""Petrus"" in Latin and ""Petros"" in Greek, deriving from """"petra"""" which means ""stone"" or ""rock"" in Greek, and is the literal translation of the Aramaic ""Kepa"", the name given to Simon by Jesus. (, and see ) Catholic tradition holds that Peter, after a ministry of thirty-four years, traveled to Rome and met his martyrdom there along with Paul on 13 October, 64 AD during the reign of the"
"David’s physical strength."" In a similar vein the Bible is quoted: ""I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women"" (King James, 2 Samuel I, 26). Jonathan (1 Samuel) Jonathan (Hebrew: ""Yəhōnāṯān"" or ""Yehonatan""; or ""Yonatan"") is a heroic figure in 1 Samuel in the Hebrew Bible. A prince of the United Kingdom of Israel, he was the eldest son of King Saul as well as a close friend of David, who eventually succeeded Saul as king. Like his father, he was a"
"on St. Peter (originally named Simon) in Matthew 16:13: When Jesus went into the region of Caesarea Philippi he asked his disciples, ""Who do people say that the Son of Man is?"" They replied, ""Some say John the Baptist, others Elijah, still others Jeremiah or one of the prophets."" He said to them, ""But who do you say that I am?"" Simon Peter said in reply, ""You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God."" Jesus said to him in reply, ""Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah. For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but"
"then declares: Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for this was not revealed to you by flesh and blood, but by my Father in heaven. And I tell you that you are Cephas (Peter) (""Petros""), and on this rock (""petra"") I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven. A common view of Peter is provided by Jesuit Father Daniel J. Harrington,"
"never identified with Simon the brother of Jesus mentioned in : 3 Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon, and are not his sisters here with us?"" And they took offense at him. The Catholic Encyclopedia suggests that Simon the Zealot may be the same person as Simeon of Jerusalem or Simon the brother of Jesus. He could perhaps be the cousin of Jesus or a son of Joseph from a previous marriage. Another tradition holds that this is the Simeon of Jerusalem who became the second bishop"
"of the book. Simon the Zealot Simon the Zealot (, ) or Simon the Cananite or Simon the Cananaean (, ; ; ; ) was one of the most obscure among the apostles of Jesus. A few pseudepigraphical writings were connected to him, and the theologian and Doctor of the Church, Saint Jerome, does not include him in ""De viris illustribus"" written between 392–393 AD. The name Simon occurs in all of the Synoptic Gospels and the Book of Acts each time there is a list of apostles, without further details: To distinguish him from Simon Peter he is called"
"Simon Peter, Simeon, or Simōn, according to the New Testament, was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus Christ, leaders of the early Christian Church. . Glynn House, named after Reverend Father Glynn, is on the ground floor of the same building that houses St. Peter's. St. Joseph’s House, named after Saint Joseph, is on the first floor of the same building that houses St. John’s. St. John’s House, named after John the Evangelist, is on the ground floor of the same building that houses St. Joseph’s. Kelly House is named after Reverend Father Maurice Kelly, first Dean and Headmaster"
"not forward the denial, nor reproches him with what had past, but says, 'If you love me, preside over the brethren ...and the third time He gives him the same injunction, showing what a price He sets the presidency over His own sheep. And if one should say, 'How then did James receive the throne of Jerusalem?,' this I would answer that He appointed this man (Peter) teacher, not of that throne, but of the whole world."" For Catholics, the fact that the new name for Simon is Peter is in fact itself very significant. In the Old Testament God"
"from all over the world. Both pilgrimages are dedicated to apostles (St James and St Andrew), both these saints were adopted as patron saints after miraculous intervention in crucial battles, and both Santiago and St Andrews are in remote areas. According to the New Testament Andrew was the brother of Simon Peter, and a fishermen. The Gospel of John states that Andrew was a disciple of John the Baptist. Based on statements of John, Andrew recognized Jesus as the Messiah, and introduce his brother to him. In the gospels, Andrew is mentioned as telling Jesus about the boy with the"
"divine messages in Matthew 2. Matthew 4:22 Matthew 4:22 is the twenty-second verse of the fourth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament. After recruiting Simon Peter and Andrew as disciples Jesus encountered the brothers James and John and their father Zebedee. In this verse they also join him. The original Koine Greek, according to Westcott and Hort, reads: In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: The World English Bible translates the passage as: For a collection of other versions see BibRef Matthew 4:22 This verse is quite similar to where Simon Peter"
"in Nolland's view to make the calling in this verse more closely parallel the calling of James and John. This verse introduces two of Jesus' most important followers the brothers Simon and Andrew, both of these figures play an important role in the Gospels and are given prominent roles by almost all Christian churches. Schweizer notes that, unlike Mark, Matthew immediately mentions that Peter is an alternate name for Simon. Schweizer feels this is because Matthew's audience would have been well aware of the stories of the disciple and knew him by the name Peter. This has the effect of"
"a 'faithful brother' (1 Peter 5:12). There is some disagreement over the proper form of his name: he is consistently called ""Silas"" in Acts, but the Latin ""Silvanus,"" which means ""of the forest,"" is always used by Paul and in the First Epistle of Peter; it may be that ""Silvanus"" is the Romanized version of the original ""Silas"", or that ""Silas"" is the Greek nickname for ""Silvanus."" Silas is thus often identified with Silvanus of the Seventy. Catholic theologian Joseph Fitzmyer points out that Silas is the Greek version of the Aramaic ""Seila"", a version of the Hebrew ""Saul"", which"
"Simon son of Boethus Simon son of Boethus (also known as Simon son of Boëthus, Simeon ben Boethus or Shimon ben Boethus) () was a Jewish High priest (ca. 23 – 4 BCE) in the 1st century BCE and father-in-law of Herod the Great. According to Josephus, he was also known by the name Cantheras (). His family is believed to have been connected to the school of the Boethusians, and a family whose origins are from Alexandria in Egypt. He succeeded Jesus, son of Fabus and was removed by Herod when his daughter, Mariamne II was implicated in the"
"brother Peter were fishermen by trade, hence the tradition that Jesus called them to be his disciples by saying that he will make them ""fishers of men"" (Greek: , ""halieis anthrōpōn""). At the beginning of Jesus' public life, they were said to have occupied the same house at Capernaum. In the Gospel of Matthew () and in the Gospel of Mark () Simon Peter and Andrew were both called together to become disciples of Jesus and ""fishers of men"". These narratives record that Jesus was walking along the shore of the Sea of Galilee, observed Simon and Andrew fishing, and"
"Simon as ""the father of Alexander and Rufus"". Tradition states that they became missionaries; the inclusion of their names may suggest that they were of some standing in the Early Christian community at Rome. It has also been suggested that the Rufus (in Greek: Ῥοῦφον or ""Rhouphon"") mentioned by Paul in Romans 16:13 is the son of Simon of Cyrene. Some also link Simon himself with the ""men of Cyrene"" who preached the Gospel to the Greeks in Acts 11:20. On the other hand, Simon's name alone does not prove he was Jewish, and Alexander and Rufus were both common"
"Peter (curopalates) Petrus (, ""Petros"", also known as Peter in English (c. 545 in Arabissus, Cappadocia – 27 November 602 in Constantinople or Chalcedon) was a brother of the Byzantine Emperor Maurice (r. 582 - 602). Petrus was a son of Paul, head of the Byzantine Senate and a sibling to Maurice, Byzantine Emperor, Gordia, the wife of Philippicus, and Theoctista. Raised to the rank of ""curopalates"", he was an important general in the Byzantine army. Together with Priscus and Comentiolus, he was one of the three commanders-in-chief during Maurice's Balkan campaigns. Though less able than Priscus, he succeeded the"
"plot of Antipater against her husband in 4 BCE. As a result, Herod divorced her and removed her father (Simon Boethus) as high priest. Simon's grandson Herod II was removed from the line of succession in Herod's last will. Simon son of Boethus Simon son of Boethus (also known as Simon son of Boëthus, Simeon ben Boethus or Shimon ben Boethus) () was a Jewish High priest (ca. 23 – 4 BCE) in the 1st century BCE and father-in-law of Herod the Great. According to Josephus, he was also known by the name Cantheras (). His family is believed to"
"Simon Magus Simon the Sorcerer, or Simon the Magician (Latin: Simon Magus, Greek Σίμων ὁ μάγος), is a religious figure whose confrontation with Peter is recorded in Acts . The act of simony, or paying for position and influence in the church, is named after Simon. According to Acts, Simon was a Samaritan magus or religious figure of the 1st century AD and a convert to Christianity, baptised by Philip the Evangelist. Simon later clashed with Peter. Accounts of Simon by writers of the second century exist, but are not considered verifiable. Surviving traditions about Simon appear in orthodox texts,"
"Simon the Zealot Simon the Zealot (, ) or Simon the Cananite or Simon the Cananaean (, ; ; ; ) was one of the most obscure among the apostles of Jesus. A few pseudepigraphical writings were connected to him, and the theologian and Doctor of the Church, Saint Jerome, does not include him in ""De viris illustribus"" written between 392–393 AD. The name Simon occurs in all of the Synoptic Gospels and the Book of Acts each time there is a list of apostles, without further details: To distinguish him from Simon Peter he is called ""Kananaios"" or ""Kananites"","
"Matthew 4:22 Matthew 4:22 is the twenty-second verse of the fourth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament. After recruiting Simon Peter and Andrew as disciples Jesus encountered the brothers James and John and their father Zebedee. In this verse they also join him. The original Koine Greek, according to Westcott and Hort, reads: In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: The World English Bible translates the passage as: For a collection of other versions see BibRef Matthew 4:22 This verse is quite similar to where Simon Peter and Andrew choose to follow"
"2 Peter 3 2 Peter 3 is the third (and the last) chapter of the Second Epistle of Peter in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. The author identifies himself as ""Simon Peter, a bondservant and apostle of Jesus Christ"" and the epistle is traditionally attributed to Peter the Apostle. This chapter can be grouped (with cross references to other parts of the Bible): New King James Version New King James Version New King James Version King James Version 8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day [is] with the Lord as a thousand"
"Jonathan (1 Samuel) Jonathan (Hebrew: ""Yəhōnāṯān"" or ""Yehonatan""; or ""Yonatan"") is a heroic figure in 1 Samuel in the Hebrew Bible. A prince of the United Kingdom of Israel, he was the eldest son of King Saul as well as a close friend of David, who eventually succeeded Saul as king. Like his father, he was a man of great strength and swiftness (2 Samuel 1:23), and he excelled in archery (, 2 Samuel 1:22) and slinging (1 Chronicles 12:2). Jonathan first appears in the biblical narrative as the victor of Geba, a Philistine stronghold (1 Samuel 13), while in"
"Galilee and invited Philip to follow him. Bengel calls these ""Great Days!"" As the chapter progresses further, the gospel describes how Jesus calls his first disciples, Andrew and an unnamed disciple (verses 35–40). The unnamed disciple was possibly John, the evangelist. Andrew finds his brother Simon (verses 41–42), and Jesus changes Simon's name to Cephas (Peter) (verse 42). Cephas, original Greek: (), means ""a rock"" (Young's Literal Translation) or ""a stone"" (King James Version). This provided a powerful analogy as to the role Peter would have after the crucifixion; to lead the development of the church. Name changes occur other"
"brothers James and John were given the title ""Boanerges"", which Mark tells us means ""Sons of Thunder"", although many modern scholars disagree with this translation. Many explanations have been given for this title but none commands a consensus. Mark does not explain why Jesus gave Simon the name Peter, meaning rock. has his naming in connection with the church and has it relate to his character. It could also have an ironic meaning, as even Peter denies Jesus in the end. Philip and Andrew are both Greek names, also Thaddaeus and Lebbaeus. Some Jews, especially from places like Galilee where"
"Peter 1:1) ""Simeon"" (Συμεών in Greek). The Simon/Simeon variation has been explained as reflecting ""the well-known custom among Jews at the time of giving the name of a famous patriarch or personage of the Old Testament to a male child along with a similar sounding Greek/Roman name"". He was later given the name כֵּיפָא (""Kepha"") in Aramaic, which was rendered in Greek (by transliteration and the addition of a final sigma to make it a masculine word) as Κηφᾶς, whence Latin and English ""Cephas"" (9 occurrences in the New Testament); or (by translation with masculine termination) as Πέτρος, whence Latin"