Sentences with phrase «peter saw jesus»

Peter saw Jesus coming and called to him and asked permission and power to come and meet him on the water.

Did Peter see Jesus just as he had known him during his earthly ministry or did he see a glorified Jesus?

Not exact matches

(Jesus not only taught only Jews, he instructed his disciples to go ONLY to Jews, something that did not change until mid-Acts after Peter got told by G - d differently, read Acts 11 = 13 and see that the disciples were ONLY going to Jews until then).

Jesus» disciples constantly questioned his actions, and Peter denied Christ even after seeing him walk on water!

Jesus» early followers became new men suddenly and seemingly without psychic preparation: «And Jesus, walking by the Sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers.

Peter's refusal to accept Jesus» predicted suffering and death is seen as a satanic attempt to deflect Jesus from His God - appointed course.

Peter had faith in Jesus, he saw Him walking on the water.

Peter, James and John see a dazzlingly transfigured Jesus talking with Moses and Elijah and they hear heaven's voice declare Jesus the Son of God to be heard and obeyed.

She ran and told Peter and «the other disciple whom Jesus loved», who also came to the tomb and saw that it was empty.

Peter and the other two disciples, representatives of this world, see it all, and Peter wants to build three tabernacles, one for Jesus and one for Moses and one for Elijah.

I have not yet seen an explanation on how Peter and the apostles could have eternal life without believing in the death and resurrection of Jesus, but how today we must believe it.

Though we do not see how our actions might affect the future, though we may not receive our inheritance right now, though we might go through persecution and trials and nakedness and danger and sword, if we just put our faith in God, as we keep our eyes on Jesus, «Keep the Son in our eyes,» as we, like Peter, keep our eyes on Jesus rather than on the rolling waves around us, we will walk by faith.

Peter sees his situation as a lack of faith rather than a lack of fish, and he blurts out, «Get out of here, Jesus,» literally in the Greek «Get out of my neighborhood!»

What Jesus meant, and any fool can see it, was that He thought Peter had rocks in his head.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church sees the power of the keys that Jesus promised to Peter alone in Matthew 16:19 as signifying authority to govern the house of God, that is, the Church, an authority that Jesus after his resurrection confirmed for Peter by instructing him in John 21:15 — 17 to feed Christ's sheep.

The young man calms them, tells them that Jesus is not there because he has risen, and gives them a message for the disciples and Peter, that Jesus is going on before them to Galilee and they will see him there.

Thought that came after seeing this comic (along with the comments): I wonder if Peter ever wanted to commit suicide after betraying Jesus.

But the usual and normal Scriptural method, as seen in all of Christ's prayers and all of Peter's prayers and all of Paul's prayers — including this one here — is to pray to God the Father, through Jesus Christ (which is why many of us say, «In Jesus Name»), and in the Holy Spirit.

You see, he didn't think that the Messiah would come to die, so when Jesus did die, Peter might have thought that Jesus had been a false Messiah.

Since ascending the throne of Saint Peter, Pope Francis has shown more than any pope in my life time (I am 68 years old and a Roman Catholic) that he follows the teachings of Jesus Christ and he is the biggest breath of fresh air the Catholic Church has seen in centuries.

Peter craved power, and he saw Jesus as the ticket to the power.

The apostle Peter, after testifying that he had seen Jesus Christ in all His glory, said, «And so we have the prophetic word made more sure, to which you do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star arises in your hearts» (II Peter 1:19, NASB).

Nowhere is that more evidently seen than when Jesus meets with Peter privately after His resurrection and Peter's denial of Him to others as He was on the Cross.

While Peter and Co. saw Jesus talking with the likes of Moses and Elijah Peter didn't want to leave the mountain top.

Peter also and the Twelve were beaten to their knees, to the ultimate motives, in what they had seen and known, of their belief and trust in Jesus.

There's plenty of tension here, and more if we consider Peter's speech in Acts 4, where he seems interested in keeping strays out of the fold («There is salvation in no one else») and 1 John 3:16 - 24, which picks up on the theme of the One who lays down his life of his own accord and then sees an outrageous connection between Jesus» action and our own: «We ought to lay down our lives for one another.»

Near the very beginning of Christ's ministry, Jesus had been walking along the shore, and had seen Peter and Andrew fishing, and had called them to come follow Him.

This is nearly identical to what we saw Peter do when Jesus called him to be a fisher of men.

When Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus» knees, saying, «Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord!»

The first letter of Peter was written to a suffering church, which is why, as we shall see, it has so much to say about Jesus as the Suffering Servant.

But if, for the reasons outlined earlier in this chapter, the Easter message was already beginning to take shape in the minds of the disciples, of Peter in particular, the experience of seeing Jesus in his glorified state would have the effect of authenticating the Easter message and of causing the Easter faith to take possession of whoever heard it, and of those, in turn, who were convinced by the apostolic testimony.

He is named first in Paul's list of witnesses, and he is given special mention in the Gospels of Mark, Luke and John.39 The fact that Peter seems to have played a leading role in the primitive church could have been due to the fact that he was the first to «see» the exalted Jesus.

(See, for example: 1 Corinthians 1:30: «But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption»; 1 Thessalonians 1:9 - 10: «For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God; And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come»; 1 Peter 2:24: «Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed..»)

He compares the application to Jesus» message to a more modern example, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and some people's tendency to use his name and image to champion their own pet causes, instead of seeing them for what they really are.

I guess I can probably see Peter doing it — you know, the Peter prior to being called Satan — but then I think about how Jesus might respond to Peter firing a taser.

I knew what Jesus meant when he told Peter that the «gates of hell would not prevail» against the church, as I was finally seeing a church that was storming the gates of hell itself to save people from its horrors (The Irresistible Revolution).

Jesus spoke to Peter about feeding his sheep, and to his apostles about people who lacked the eyes to see and the ears to hear and how they will never understand his parables even if they try (and, interestingly, he said this as the reason he taught using parables rather than just stating things out explicitly).

If the disciples and Peter follow the risen Jesus to Galilee where he is initiating a second career, they will not only «see the Lord» as he continues his ministry among the marginalized masses, they will also participate in his resurrection, even as they participated in his death; and consequently, like him at the beginning of his career in the narrative world of Mark's Gospel, they will be called into being as God's beloved daughters and sons and simultaneously be empowered to actualize the possibilities of the reign of Christ.

Then they receive an Easter commission: go, tell his disciples and Peter that Jesus is going ahead of them to Galilee; in Galilee they will see him.

Therefore, Peter will always stress the responsibility and the ethical obligation of Christianity, and will always see in Jesus Christ an example, however much more he sees, while Paul will always think in terms of inner communion and unity with Jesus Christ.

So far it would be possible to class Peter as an exemplarist, and so far it is not necessary to see in Jesus anything other than a great example.

Is it then true that Peter sees in Jesus no more than a dynamic example?

It can easily be seen that Peter has a far more than exemplarist view of the work of Jesus Christ.

We see the same thing at the Last Supper, as Jesus gives the bread and wine to all who are there — even to Peter, who Jesus said would deny him, and to Judas, who would betray him.

Gary: To do a thing apart from His Spirit is just self works: It is not in and by The Faith of the Son of God: Paul said; he lives by the Faith of the Son of God, that comes with the in workings of the Holy Spirit: Even as Paul says; follow me as am of Christ: This was Paul commission: Little Children I labour in birth again until Christ be formed in you, this takes us from self works into the in workings of the Holy Spirit, that we too are conformed into the image and likeness of Christ, as Christ is formed in us: Even as it was with Peter's commission, Peter when thouest is converted convert thine brethren: But we can see many left Jesus and Paul when it can time for the strong meat to be had: So too is it in each generation: The great falling away, that only the faithful remain: Thank - you Gary; In Jesus name Alexandria: P.S. if Peter or Jesus or Paul would stand here today in your presence and speak forth what they spoke forth then, would you truly receive them??? Now it is the Christ in us that comes forth to minister the Words of the Lord through others as they: That is why Christ is not divided, those of the same Spirit will know because we speak the same things in and by His Holy Spirit:

The author of the Fourth Gospel tells us that immediately on seeing Simon, Jesus gave him the nickname «Cephas» or «Peter», which means «stone» or «rock» (1:42).

See also http://www.faithfutures.org/JDB/jdb073.html and Professor Gerd Ludemann's review in his book, Jesus After 2000 Years, pp. 197 - 198,» The passage (Matt 16: 18) was put into the mouth of Jesus by Peter himself or his followers and subsequently predated by Matthew into the life of Jesus.

Then they run away and tell no one / joyfully go off to tell the disciples the good news / tell the disciples, who don't believe them, then find but do not recognize Jesus / tells Peter and a disciple, then see angels and Jesus, who she doesn't recognize.

At the Transfiguration (Mk 9:2 - 8), Peter James and John — significantly after climbing up a mountain with Jesus — saw him shining with light.

But as we see with Peter who was a coward in his denial of knowing Jesus, and with Paul who actively persecuted the early church, that doesn't shut the door on grace.