Peter

Following is a Armenian Orthodox icon of Peter (found in the Ghazanchetsots Cathedral in Shusha, Azerbaijan).

Orthodox Icons are not drawings or creations of imagination. They are in fact writings of things not of this world. Icons can represent our Lord Jesus Christ, the Virgin Mary, and the Saints. They can also represent the Holy Trinity, Angels, the Heavenly hosts, and even events. Orthodox icons, unlike Western pictures, change the perspective and form of the image so that it is not naturalistic. This is done so that we can look beyond appearances of the world, and instead look to the spiritual truth of the holy person or event. (Source )

Following is a hand colored stencil print on momigami of Peter by Sadao Watanabe (1970):

Image taken with permission from the SadaoHanga Catalogue where you can find many more images and information about Sadao Watanabe. For other images of Sadao Watanabe art works in TIPs, see here.

In Finnish Sign Language it is translated with the sign signifying “key” (referring to Matthew 16:19). (Source: Tarja Sandholm)


“Peter” or “Cephas” in Finnish Sign Language (source )

In Swiss-German Sign Language it is translated with the sign for “rock,” referring to the meaning of the Greek word for “Peter.”


“Peter” in Swiss-German Sign Language, source: DSGS-Lexikon biblischer Begriffe , © CGG Schweiz

See also Peter – rock.

complete verse (Luke 24:12)

Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 24:12:

  • Noongar: “But Peter stood up and ran to the grave; he stooped and saw the grave clothes but not another thing. Then he went back , amazed because of everything which had happened.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
  • Uma: “But as for Petrus, he ran to the grave. He bent down to peer inside, he saw that only the burial-cloths were there. After that, he returned to his house, and he continually pondered thinking about what had happened.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “But Petros jumped up running to the grave. When he arrived there he bent down peeping into the cave. The only things he saw there were the shrouds. Then he left for home, he really wondered about the happenings.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “But Peter, when he heard that news, he ran to the tomb and when he arrived, he peeked inside and the only thing he saw was the white cloth which had wrapped the body of Jesus. And he left there and went home, very surprised, wondering why the body of Jesus wasn’t there.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “But Pedro however, he ran to go to the place of the cave. Arriving there, he bent-down to peer-in, but he saw nothing except the cloth that they-had-used-for-wrapping. Then he went-home searching-and-searching in his mind as to what had happened.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “But although they didn’t acknowledge it as true, Pedro ran going there to the grave. When he arrived, he bent down to peer inside. All he saw there were those cloths with which the body of Jesus had been wrapped. That’s why he went home amazed about that which had happened.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

Translation commentary on Luke 24:12

Exegesis:

parakupsas blepei ta othonia mona ‘stooping down he saw only the linen clothes.’ mona may be taken as predicate (cf. Revised Standard Version, Phillips) or as attributive to othonia, ‘the clothes alone,’ i.e. ‘only the clothes’ (cf. Translator’s New Testament, Good News Translation). The latter is preferable.

parakuptō ‘to stoop down,’ ‘to peer in.’

othonion ‘linen cloth,’ ‘bandage,’ used in preparing a corpse for burial.

pros heauton thaumazōn to gegonos ‘wondering in himself (at) that which had happened.’ pros heauton may go with apēlthen, or with thaumazōn, preferably the latter.

Translation:

Stooping and looking in, he saw, or, ‘when he stooped to look (or, when he peered in), he saw/noticed.’

The linen cloths by themselves, preferably, ‘only the linen cloths,’ “nothing but the linen wrappings/clothes” (The Four Gospels – a New Translation, Translator’s New Testament), ‘the linen bandages and nothing else.’ — The linen cloths refers to what in 23.53 is called “a linen shroud”.

He went home wondering, preferably, ‘he went away wondering in himself’ (Nieuwe Vertaling). The qualification ‘in himself’ is redundant; it should not be rendered where idiom is against it. For wondering see on 1.21.

Quoted with permission from Reiling, J. and Swellengrebel, J.L. A Handbook on the Gospel of Luke. (UBS Handbook Series). New York: UBS, 1971. For this and other handbooks for translators see here . Make sure to also consult the Handbook on the Gospel of Mark for parallel or similar verses.