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For any heathens like me, the history makes a lot more sense when you know that Simon and Peter are the same person. It chops and changes with no explanation.

[TheFreim]

> It chops and changes with no explanation.

The site provides the relevant information. In the "Story of the Basilica" the first section is "The Life of St. Peter" and it tells you why Simon came to be called Peter.

https://virtual.basilicasanpietro.va/en/st-peter-history

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The name changes before mentioning that he is renamed by Jesus. But yes, it does explain later on. I’d skipped to Wikipedia by then.

[rawgabbit]

Jesus gave Simon a new name saying you will be the rock of my new church. Peter is anglicized Petros or rock in Greek.

The story is that Jesus spoke Aramaic. He would address Simon as Kepha. But the early gentile Christians wrote in Greek the language of the educated.

[cr125rider]

The first “The Rock”

[rayrey]

Then there is that Saul guy

[rawgabbit]

There is the Old Testament King Saul.

And there is Saul of Tarsus (unrelated) who first persecuted Christians and then converted and became the apostle Paul who was later beheaded by the Romans during Nero’s reign.