John 1:41-43
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
41 He first found his own brother Simon and told him, “We have found the Messiah”[a] (which is translated Anointed).(A) 42 Then he brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, “You are Simon the son of John;[b] you will be called Cephas” (which is translated Peter).(B)
43 The next day he[c] decided to go to Galilee, and he found Philip. And Jesus said to him, “Follow me.”
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- 1:41 Messiah: the Hebrew word māšîaḥ, “anointed one” (see note on Lk 2:11), appears in Greek as the transliterated messias only here and in Jn 4:25. Elsewhere the Greek translation christos is used.
- 1:42 Simon, the son of John: in Mt 16:17, Simon is called Bariōna, “son of Jonah,” a different tradition for the name of Simon’s father. Cephas: in Aramaic = the Rock; cf. Mt 16:18. Neither the Greek equivalent Petros nor, with one isolated exception, Cephas is attested as a personal name before Christian times.
- 1:43 He: grammatically, could be Peter, but logically is probably Jesus.
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