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Following Jesus' arrest, Peter stands in the courtyard during the illegal nighttime trial. He denies that he is a follower of Jesus two times, and then the third time, he curses at a servant girl ...

Painting by Johann Georg Trautmann depicting Jesus appearing before Caiphus (middle-right), and Peter denying that he knew Jesus (bottom left).

Just a few weeks later, Peter urged others to experience the same forgiveness he had found: "Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins ...

After denying Jesus, Peter simply “went outside and wept bitterly” (Matt. 26:75). And his weeping looks more like despair than repentance, said Gundry.

Simon Peter, not one bit afraid to say the word Jesus over and over and over again (vv. 14–41). That’s why we remain confident that the church we love will triumph. The raven broods and the ...

On this Sunday's Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, the Church honors two saints who responded to the Lord's call to ...

Jesus looked intently at Peter for a moment and then said, "You are Simon, John's son - but you shall be called Peter, the rock!" John 1:42. Some Christians deny that the Pope, as successor of St ...