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by rawgabbit 522 days ago
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.

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The first “The Rock”