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):

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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.

Peter denies Jesus (image)

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Following is an painting by Wang Suda 王肅達 (1910-1963):

Copyright by the Catholic University Peking, China

Text under painting translated from Literary Chinese into English:
The Second Commandment
Peter swears he doesn’t know the Lord

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complete verse (Mark 14:70)

Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 14:70:

  • Uma: “But Petrus firmly denied it again. Not long from there, a person / people standing there said to him again: ‘You (sing.) are too his companion! For you (sing.) too are a Galilea person.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “But Petros argued/denied again. Not long after, the people standing there said to Petros, ‘You cannot argue/deny that you are not their companion because you are a man from Jalil also.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “But when Peter heard that, he denied it again. And after a while the people who were there said to Peter, they said, ‘It’s really true that you are his companions. It’s evident for you are from Galilee also.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “But again Pedro denied it. A little later, those standing there also said, ‘It’s emphatically true that you (sing.) are one of them, because you (sing.) also are from-Galilea.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “Pedro again really denied it once more.Before long, Pedro was next spoken to by those standing there, ‘You were indeed with them, for you are a taga Galilea.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)

Translation commentary on Mark 14:70

Text:

At the end of the verse kai hē lalia sou homoiazei ‘for your speech is like (the speech of Galileans)’ is added by Textus Receptus and included in brackets by Soden and Taylor; it is omitted, however, by the majority of modern editions of the Greek text.

Exegesis:

ērneito (cf. v. 68) ‘he was denying’: the imperfect tense here, in contrast to the aorist tense in v. 68, may portray the denial as being repeated; cf. The Modern Speech New Testament, ‘he repeatedly denied it.’ Translator’s New Testament (again cf. v. 68), ‘But he disowned Him again.’

meta mikron (cf. 14.35) ‘after a little (while).’

kai gar Galilaios ei ‘for you also are a Galilean’: the kai ‘also’ should not be omitted (as done by Revised Standard Version).

Galilaios (only here in Mark) ‘a Galilean,’ ‘a man from Galilee.’

Translation:

Again he denied it may be rendered as ‘again he said it was not so’ or ‘again he declared that it was not true.’

One of them is rendered as ‘one with them’ in some languages, since association is described as being ‘with’ a group rather than ‘of’ it.

Galilean is generally rendered as ‘a man from Galilee’ or ‘Galilee is your land.’

Quoted with permission from Bratcher, Robert G. and Nida, Eugene A. A Handbook on the Gospel of Mark. (UBS Handbook Series). New York: UBS, 1961. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .