To prison and to death (εις φυλακην κα εις θανατον). Evidently Peter was not flattered by the need of Christ's earnest prayers for…

Lord, I am ready to go with thee.—There is something like a latent tone of indignation as well as devotion. The disciple …

But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren. And he said unto him, Lord, I am rea…

The Venerable Bede: To prevent the eleven from becoming boastful and attributing it to their own strength that they, almost alo…

Just after Jesus commended the disciples for their faithfulness and promised them a kingdom, he goes on to predict Peter’s defection, which he attr…

And he said to him
That is, Simon, or Simeon, said to him, as the Syriac and Persic versions express it; he made a r…

How unbecoming is the worldly ambition of being the greatest to the character of a follower of Jesus, who took upon Himself the form of a servant a…