Bible Verses About Peter

he noticed two boats pulled up on the beach, left there by the fishermen, who were cleaning their nets.

He got into one of the boats, the one belonging to Shim`on, and asked him to put out a little way from shore. Then he sat down and taught the people from the boat.

When he had finished speaking, he said to Shim`on, "Put out into deep water, and let down your nets for a catch."

Shim`on answered, "We've worked hard all night long, Rabbi, and haven't caught a thing! But if you say so, I'll let down the nets."

They did this and took in so many fish that their nets began to tear.

So they motioned to their partners in the other boat to come and help them; and they came and filled both boats to the point of sinking.

When he saw this, Shim`on Kefa fell at Yeshua's knees and said, "Get away from me, sir, because I'm a sinner!"

For astonishment had seized him and everyone with him at the catch of fish they had taken, and

likewise both Ya`akov and Yochanan, Shim`on's partners. "Don't be frightened,"Yeshua said to Shim`on, "from now on you will be catching men -- alive!"

And as soon as they had beached their boats, they left everything behind and followed him.

Shim`on, whom he named Kefa; Andrew, his brother; Ya`akov; Yochanan; Philip; Bar-Talmai;

“But you,” he said to them, “who do you say I am?” Kefa answered, “The Mashiach of God!”

Yeshua sent Kefa and Yochanan, instructing them, “Go and prepare our Seder, so we can eat.”

“Shim‘on, Shim‘on, listen! The Adversary demanded to have you people for himself, to sift you like wheat!

But I prayed for you, Shim‘on, that your trust might not fail. And you, once you have turned back in repentance, strengthen your brothers!”

Shim‘on said to him, “Lord, I am prepared to go with you both to prison and to death!”

Yeshua replied, “I tell you, Kefa, the rooster will not crow today until you have denied three times that you know me.”

One of them struck at the slave of the cohen hagadol and cut off his right ear.

Having seized him, they led him away and brought him into the house of the cohen hagadol. Kefa followed at a distance;

but when they had lit a fire in the middle of the courtyard and sat down together, Kefa joined them.

One of the servant girls saw him sitting in the light of the fire, stared at him and said, “This man also was with him.”

But he denied it: “Lady, I don’t even know him.”

A little later, someone else saw him and said, “You’re one of them too”; but Kefa said, “Man, I am not!”

About an hour later, another man asserted emphatically, “There can be no doubt that this fellow was with him, because he too is from the Galil!”

But Kefa said, “Man, I don’t know what you’re talking about!” And instantly, while he was still speaking, a rooster crowed.