That said, Simon’s life story really doesn’t start in earnest until he meets Jesus, who renames him Cephas, which translated is Peter (John 1:42). The New Testament uses Peter 178 times, Simon Peter ...

1 Pet 4:19). The New Testament regularly sees sufferings as the road believers must travel to enter into God's kingdom (cf. Acts 14:22; Rom 5:3-5; Jas 1:2-4)." Karen Jobes says that although for Peter ...

and treatments of biblical themes throw light on this often-ignored New Testament text. While there are commonalities in the rhetorical strategies used by both the African American women and the ...

In a cryptic passage in the New Testament epistle of First Peter, the crucified Jesus is said to have visited and liberated imprisoned “spirits.” Many interpreters have seen this as an ...