the apostle
General References to
Mt 4:18; Joh 1:41; Mr 3:16; Mt 16:16; Mr 5:37; Mr 9:2
Mt 17:24; Mt 18:21; Mt 19:27; Lu 31; Joh 13:6; Mt 69
Lu 34; Joh 15; Ac 1:15; Ac 2:14; Ac 3:1; Ac 4:8; Ac 29
Ac 20; Ac 40; Ac 10:9; Ac 11:2; Ac 12:3; Ac 15:7; 1Co 1:12; 1Co 9:5
Ga 1:18; Ga 2:11; 1Pe 1:1; 1Pe 5:1
--"The Reed Changed to a Rock"
Naturally impulsive
Mt 14:28; Mt 17:4; Joh 21:7
Tenderhearted and affectionate
Mt 26:75; Joh 13:9; Joh 21:15-17
Full of strange contradictions, - at times presumptuous
Mt 16:22; Joh 13:8; Joh 18:10
other times timid and cowardly
Mt 14:30; Mt 26:69-72
Self-sacrificing
Mr 1:18
yet inclined to be self-seeking
Mt 19:27
Gifted with Spiritual insight
Joh 6:68
yet slow to apprehend the deeper truths
Mt 16
Made two great confession of his faith in Christ
Mt 16:16; Joh 6:69
and also the most cowardly denial
Mr 14:67-71
--Seven Steps in his Fall
1--Conceit
Mt 26:33
2--Ease
Mt 26:40
3--Rashness
Joh 11
4--Following afar off
Mt 26:58
5--Evil associations
Joh 18:18
6--Open Denial
Joh 18:25
7--Blasphemy
Mr 71
--After Pentecostal Baptismof the Spirit, he became a "rock"
fulfilling the prophecy of Christ
Joh 1:42; Mt 16:18; Ac 1:8
Was courageous and immovable
Ac 20; Ac 40
--SEEMiracles of,MIRACLES