Contrite Saint Peter before Mary, the Mother of God, painting in Louvre by Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (1647)

but less than two months later a Peter totally transformed by the Grace of God speaking to the crowd in Jerusalem as recorded in Acts 2 :

"Let all the house of Israel therefore know assuredly that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified."

endeavors to reproduce all passages in the New Testament of the Bible which single out the Apostle Peter for mention or in which Peter speaks, with the exception of the two epistles which are attributed to Peter, as of course in these two cases it would be necessary to reproduce these two entire books. Perhaps there have been other, even many other, such attempts, but the present writer is not aware of any. One might argue that this absence is because such an effort really does not add much to popular or scholarly discussion of the divine mandate for the primacy of Peter. Just read the whole New Testament. But the passages in the Bible in which Peter speaks and those in which Peter is singled out by the Lord, though strikingly numerous, are obviously not coextensive with the New Testament. And separating out these passages does help the reader to begin at least to mentally get a grip around the Biblical background of Petrine primacy. The presentation set forth on this webpage may also serve as a kind of remedy, a kind of antidote to those very frequently encountered writings which, however motivated, present a highly truncated view of the Biblical authority for Petrine primacy, a view in fact which is not infrequently restricted to Matthew 16:18:

"And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the powers of death shall not prevail against it... "
"καγω δε σοι λεγω οτι συ ει πετρος και επι ταυτη τη πετρα οικοδομησω μου την εκκλησιαν και πυλαι αδου ου κατισχυσουσιν αυτης..."
"et ego dico tibi quia tu es Petrus et super hanc petram aedificabo ecclesiam meam et portae inferi non praevalebunt adversum eam..."
"и Я говорю тебе: ты--Петр, и на сем камне Я создам Церковь Мою, и врата ада не одолеют ее..."

Those who have read or are willing to read all of the Petrine texts, as presented on Apostolicity - The One - Authority from Scripture, understand or will quickly come to understand that the primacy of Peter among the Apostles and the among the entire group of disciples of Jesus within the Biblical narrative is vast. Those who have not read and are unwilling to read all of these Biblical passages should not be commenting on the issue of Papal primacy.

Those Bible passages in which Peter is referred to together with other Apostles are reproduced on the sister pages of this website: Apostolicity- the Three or Apostolicity - the Twelve. And please see also Apostolicity- the Seventy(-two).

unlike the case with Scripture, this page obviously can not endeavor to be exhaustive, to reproduce all passages from the writings of Ante-Nicene Fathers -- from the close of New Testament Times, c. 100 to the First Ecumenical Council, the Council of Nicaea in 325 AD) --dealing with or alluding to the authority of the Bishops of Rome. What will be attempted will be to not be selective, to scrupulously avoid excerpting from any given Church father only those of his statements which support one or another position.