Simon Peter

In Mark’s Gospel

• Named first among the twelve

  Mark 3:16

• Part of the inner circle: present at the raising of Jairus's daughter (Mark 5:37), the Transfiguration (Mark 9:2-8), and Gethsemane

  Mark 14:33

• Confessed "You are the Christ" (Mark 8:29), then was rebuked: "Get behind me, Satan!"

  Mark 8:33

• Cut off the servant's ear at Jesus's arrest

  John 18:10 — narrated in John, not Mark

Who they were

• ✦Bold and impulsive — speaks first, acts first (Mark 8:29; Mark 9:5; John 18:10)
• ✦Deeply loyal but fearful — vowed he would never fall away, then denied Jesus (Mark 14:29-31, 14:66-72)
• ✦A natural leader — always listed first; spokesman for the disciples (Mark 3:16; Acts 2:14)

Read about them

Faces of Faith

“Surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses” — Hebrews 12:1

A keepsake of Simon Peter’s story — the portrait on the front, the key moments on the back.